Procalcitonin is not a reliable biomarker of bacterial coinfection in people with coronavirus disease 2019 undergoing microbiological investigation at the time of hospital admission
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Admission procalcitonin measurements and microbiology results were available for 1040 hospitalized adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (from 48 902 included in the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium World Health Organization Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK study). Although procalcitonin was higher in bacterial coinfection, this was neither clinically significant (median [IQR], 0.33 [0.11-1.70] ng/mL vs 0.24 [0.10-0.90] ng/mL) nor diagnostically useful (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.56 [95% confidence interval, .51-.60]).
Date Issued
2022-05-01
Date Acceptance
2022-04-01
Citation
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022, 9 (5)
ISSN
2328-8957
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal / Book Title
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Volume
9
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sponsor
National Institute for Health Research
UKRI MRC COVID-19 Rapid Response Call
UK Research and Innovation
UK Research and Innovation
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding
National Institute for Health Research
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35531376
PII: ofac179
Grant Number
NIHR201385
MC_PC19025
9815274 MC_PC_19025
1257927
RDA01
HPRU-2012-10064
090382/Z/09/Z
090382/Z/09/Z
Subjects
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
coinfection
procalcitonin
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Article Number
ARTN ofac179