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In this issue of the journal, Steinwaldet al[1] extend limited clinical studies and report an animal experiment showing that calcitonin precursors (predominantly procal-citonin) are elevated in proportion to the severity of bacterial sepsis. They conclude that procalcitonin, the major calcitonin precursor, is a good indicator of the activity and severity of the inflammatory response and may be used for monitoring bacterial infections.

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21 Visit the original government dataset for complete information, documentation, and data access. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC29008/

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