… procalcitonin as a diagnostic test in urinary tract infection and as a biomarker of the damage
… sensitive marker to predict parenchymal damage and serum PCT determination is useful in …

… as a marker of bacterial infection, this study was carried out to determine the usefulness
of serum PCT as an early marker to decide upon intervention for urinary tract infection. …

… Based on the results, urinary NGAL can be a suitable marker for … marker for predicting
UTIs. For differential diagnosis of upper from lower UTIs, NGAL also could be a useful marker. …

… and helps to distinguish between viral and bacterial infections which is particularly useful
in children [10]. Increase in PCT occurs more rapidly than increase in CRP. PCT can be …

… Recently, it has been shown that PCT levels can be used as complementary diagnostic
markers for VAP 88 and are also a useful marker for diagnosing VAP in patients with an already-…

… Procalcitonin may be useful in the diagnosis of urinary tract infections, for which there are
no well-identified severity markers. In children, procalcitonin was correlated with the severity of …

… have proposed potential markers in urine, no clinically useful marker is currently available
… exosomal markers that may reflect the responses of host cells to bacterial infection in UTI. …

… PUBMED, MEDLINE and SCOPUS databases were searched for “urinary tract infection”, “biological
marker” and “diagnosis” and then limited to studies published in the English …

… suspected or confirmed urinary tract infection (including cystitis and … process and includes
markers of immune response and … and microscopy only can be useful for ruling out bacteriuria. …

… This study also confirmed that PCT was not a useful marker for pneumonia identification. A
further study evaluated the presence of sTREM in exhaled ventilator condensate (EVC) and …