“…In this paper they provide interesting data derived from real-world practice and combine appropriateness with attention to risks and costs of currently used therapies. 1 Although based on a smaller number of patients, their results confirm what larger experimental studies showed about the utility of PCT for diagnosis and management of respiratory tract infections. [2][3][4] Several papers published in recent years have shown that, in the presence of an opacity on chest X-ray, the negativity of PCT can reasonably exclude an underlying infectious bacterial cause.…”