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The clinical presentations, characteristics, laboratory data, and treatment responses were recorded and their associations with CRP and PCT values were analyzed.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A total of 189 cases of rickettsioses, including 115 cases of acute Q fever (60.8%), 55 cases of scrub typhus (29.1%), and 19 cases of murine typhus (10.1%) were investigated. Both CRP and PCT values increased in the acute phase and declined in the convalescent phase. In the acute phase, mean CRP and PCT values were 78.2\u2009\u00b1\u200963.7\u2009mg\/L and 1.05\u2009\u00b1\u20091.40\u2009ng\/mL, respectively. Percentages of patients falling under different cut-off values of CRP and PCT were calculated systematically. Only 10.8% of CRP was &gt;\u2009150\u2009mg\/L and 14.2% of PCT was &gt;\u20092.0\u2009ng\/mL. Patients with delayed responses to doxycycline treatment (&gt;\u20093\u2009days from treatment to defervescence) had significantly higher CRP values (102.7\u2009\u00b1\u200977.1 vs. 72.2\u2009\u00b1\u200958.2\u2009mg\/L, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u20090.041) and more PCT &gt;\u20091.0\u2009ng\/ml (48.4% vs. 26.0%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u20090.019) in the acute phase; higher CRP values (19.1\u2009\u00b1\u200937.4 vs. 3.6\u2009\u00b1\u200913.1\u2009mg\/L, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u20090.049) and more PCT &gt;\u20090.5\u2009ng\/ml (19.2% vs. 1.4%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u20090.005) in the convalescent phase. Correlation analysis was conducted for patients with acute Q fever. CRP and PCT values were positively correlated to each other, and both markers also had a positive correlation with serum aspartate transaminase values. Both CRP and PCT values and white blood cell counts were positively correlated to the days needed from doxycycline treatment to defervescence.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>CRP and PCT values might be useful in clinical investigations for patients with suspected rickettsioses and in predicting the response to doxycycline treatment for rickettsioses.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12879-020-05058-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,12]],"date-time":"2020-05-12T07:03:07Z","timestamp":1589266987000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Serum C-reactive protein and procalcitonin values in acute Q fever, scrub typhus, and murine typhus"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"I-Fan","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiun-Nong","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chia-Ta","family":"Tsai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu-Ying","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yen-Hsu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1895-3673","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chung-Hsu","family":"Lai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,12]]},"reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"5058_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"694","DOI":"10.1128\/CMR.10.4.694","volume":"10","author":"D Raoult","year":"1997","unstructured":"Raoult D, Roux V. 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