Accuracy of Inflammatory Biomarkers for Ruling out Invasive Bacterial Infections in Young Febrile Infants
AIM: To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP) and absolute neutrophil count (ANC) to rule out invasive bacterial infections (IBI) in well-appearing febrile infants aged ≤ 60 days.METHODS: Multicentre study of infants ≤ 60 days with fever without source. We calculated the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive
