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From: Use of plasma C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, neutrophils, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor, and soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 in combination to diagnose infections: a prospective study

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Flowchart of the patients included in the study. Flowchart describing the number of patients included in the study, the reasons for subsequent exclusions, the final diagnoses of the patients, and the ability C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), and the three-marker and six-marker combined tests to correctly diagnose patients as having bacterial infection. Optimal cutoffs for bacterial infection (determined by Youdens Index) were used for all four markers. SIRS, systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

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