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Respiratory infection
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Severe respiratory viral infection induces procalcitonin in the absence of bacterial pneumonia

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  • Samir Gautam Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Avi J Cohen Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yannick Stahl Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Patricia Valda Toro Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Grant M Young Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rupak Datta Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Xiting Yan Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicholas T Ristic Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Santos D Bermejo Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lokesh Sharma Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marcos I Restrepo Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Health, San Antonio, Texas, USA Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Charles S Dela Cruz Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Charles S Dela Cruz, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; charles.delacruz{at}yale.edu
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Citation

Gautam S, Cohen AJ, Stahl Y, et al
Severe respiratory viral infection induces procalcitonin in the absence of bacterial pneumonia
Thorax 2020;75:974-981.

Publication history

  • Received March 27, 2020
  • Revised June 16, 2020
  • Accepted June 22, 2020
  • First published August 21, 2020.
Online issue publication 
October 16, 2020

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