Diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin and interleukin-6 values for predicting bacteremia and clinical sepsis in febrile neutropenic children with cancer

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2006 Jun;25(6):413-5. doi: 10.1007/s10096-006-0143-x.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bacteremia / diagnosis
  • Bacteremia / microbiology
  • Biomarkers / blood
  • C-Reactive Protein / analysis
  • Calcitonin / blood*
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Fever of Unknown Origin / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Interleukin-6 / blood*
  • Male
  • Neoplasms / complications
  • Neutropenia / complications*
  • Prospective Studies
  • Protein Precursors / blood*
  • ROC Curve
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Sepsis / diagnosis*
  • Sepsis / microbiology
  • Statistics, Nonparametric

Substances

  • Biomarkers
  • CALCA protein, human
  • Interleukin-6
  • Protein Precursors
  • Calcitonin
  • C-Reactive Protein
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide