Limitations on the usefulness of procalcitonin as a marker of infection in patients with systemic autoimmune disease: comment on the article by Eberhard et al

Arthritis Rheum. 1998 Mar;41(3):566-7; author reply 568. doi: 10.1002/1529-0131(199803)41:3<566::AID-ART30>3.0.CO;2-U.
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Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Autoimmune Diseases / blood
  • Autoimmune Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Bacterial Infections / diagnosis*
  • Biomarkers / blood
  • Calcitonin / blood*
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Protein Precursors / blood*

Substances

  • Biomarkers
  • CALCA protein, human
  • Protein Precursors
  • Calcitonin
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide