Procalcitonin as an antibiotic stewardship tool in COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit

J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2020 Sep:22:782-784. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2020.07.017. Epub 2020 Jul 25.

¹ General Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, Tremona Road, Southampton, UK.
² General Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, Tremona Road, Southampton, UK; Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
³ Department of Biochemistry University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton, UK.
⁴ Microbiology Innovation and Research Unit (MIRU), Department of Microbiology, University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, and University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton, UK; International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC), Chair of Rapid Diagnostics and Biomarker Working Group. Electronic address: Kordo.Saeed@uhs.nhs.uk.

No abstract available

Keywords: Antibiotic stewardship; COVID-19; PCT; Procalcitonin; SARS-CoV-2.

MeSH terms