Determination of Serum Procalcitonin and C-reactive Protein in Infection Diseases

Objective To study the serum procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in infection diseases and its clinical significance.Methods The contents of PCT and CRP insera of 100 and 40 noninfected cases of newborn were examed.Results The levels of PCT and CRP in bacteria infected group were significantly higher than that in virus infected and non-infected groups(P0.01).The levels of PCT and CRP in virus infected group were slightly hightly higher than that in non-infected group and there was no significicant difference among them(P0.05).In the bacteria infected group there were significant differences between the pretreament levels of PCT and CRP and post treatment levels of them(P0.01).Conclusion The examination of serum PCT and CRP is helpful to make distinctive diagnosis for infections at earlystage,and the dynamic determination of their level change is valuable for judgement of therapeutic results.