Role of the eosinophil count in discriminating the severity of community-acquired pneumonia in HIV-infected patients
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* Corresponding author: Rafel Perelló rperello@clinic.ub.es
1 Emergency Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Agustí Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Villarroel 170, 08036 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
2 Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Agustí Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Villarroel 170, 08036 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Critical Care 2008, 12:425 doi:10.1186/cc6971
Published: 13 August 2008First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Abidi and colleagues recently reported that eosinopenia constitutes a good diagnostic marker in distinguishing between noninfection and infection, but is a moderate marker in discriminating between systemic inflammatory response syndrome and infection in newly admitted critically ill patients [1]. They propose that eosinopenia may become a helpful clinical tool in intensive care unit (ICU) practices. They included different types of severe infections, however, and therefore the utility of eosinopenia for a particular kind of infection is not approached.