Pedro Póvoa C-reactive protein: a valuable marker of sepsis

C-reactive protein (CRP) is one such marker. Physiology of C-reactive protein C-reactive protein is a long-established marker of sepsis. In 1930, Tillet and Francis identified, in the sera of pa-tients with pneumonia, the capacity to precipitate polysac-charide fractions, designated as fraction C, from Strepto-coccus pneumoniae[6]. ................
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