Abstract

Notwithstanding the progress made in sepsis diagnostic techniques, it continues to be a significant contributor to both morbidity and mortality. Diagnosing sepsis from other non-infectious disease states continues to be difficult. Although procalcitonin (PCT) is a valuable diagnostic tool for sepsis, its cut-off ranges differ across clinical settings. Establishing a correlation between PCT levels in serum and cultures, as well as determining the optimal PCT cutoff values with high sensitivity and specificity, was the objective of this study.

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