Abstract:Respiratory tract infections have the highest rates of antibiotic prescriptions where symptoms like fever, cough, and rigors are regularly misinterpreted and where bacterial infections cannot be distinguished from viral ones. Nevertheless, it has been recently suggested that C-reactive protein (CRP), a protein produced by the liver in response to infection, could serve as a potential biomarker for the precise differentiation of these two types of infections. Thus, its quick and accurate detection would potenti… Show more
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