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This study was conducted to measure the serum procalcitonin (PCT) levels at the time of initial presentation as a biomarker for identifying bacteraemia and as a predictor of mortality in patients admitted with acute fever.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Four hundred and eighty patients, who presented with acute fever requiring admission to a tertiary care teaching hospital in south India, were prospectively studied. All patients were evaluated with a detailed history, physical examination, laboratory and imaging studies. Baseline serum PCT was measured for each patient within six hours of admission.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Among patients with single infectious cause (n=275), significantly higher median serum PCT levels were evident in bacteraemia compared to leptospirosis (<jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>=0.002), dengue (<jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>&lt;0.001), scrub typhus (<jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>&lt;0.001) and evident focus of infection without bacteraemia (<jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>=0.036). By receiver-operator characteristic curve analysis, at a cut-off value of &gt;3.2 ng\/ml, the sensitivity and specificity of serum PCT levels in predicting bacteraemia were 81.1 and 63.3 per cent, respectively. As per the worst-case scenario analysis, 91 (18.9%) patients had a poor outcome and these had significantly higher median serum PCT levels compared to survivors (n=389) [9.46 (2.03-44.4) vs. 1.23 (0.34-7.645); <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>&lt;0.001]. At a cut-off value of &gt;3.74 ng\/ml, serum PCT levels at initial presentation predicted in-hospital mortality with a sensitivity and specificity of 67 and 67.5 per cent, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Interpretation &amp; conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Our observations suggest that serum PCT level may be a useful biomarker for identifying bacteraemia as well as predicting mortality in patients with acute fever requiring admission to hospital.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/ijmr.ijmr_324_18","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,12]],"date-time":"2020-05-12T09:00:59Z","timestamp":1589274059000},"page":"342-349","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Serum procalcitonin as a biomarker of bloodstream infection &amp; focal bacterial infection in febrile patients"],"prefix":"10.25259","volume":"151","author":[{"given":"Janjam","family":"Harikrishna","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alladi","family":"Mohan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"D.P.","family":"Kalyana Chakravarthi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Abhijit","family":"Chaudhury","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"B. 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