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American Thoracic Society International Conference 2018 (ATS 2018)
San Diego, California, US
18 May 2018 - 23 May 2018
28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2018)
Madrid, Spain
21 April 2018 - 24 April 2018
National-Dengue-and-Arbovirus-Infection-Conference-2017
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
12 August 2017 - 13 August 2017
15th Urological Association of Asia Congress (UAA 2017)
04 August 2017 - 06 August 2017
26th Conference of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL)
Shanghai, China
15 February 2017 - 19 February 2017
49th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) 2016
Athens, Greece
25 May 2016 - 28 May 2016
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No reduction in antibiotic exposure for lower respiratory infection following procalcitonin assay
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The use of procalcitonin assays had little impact on antibiotic exposure in patients who presented to emergency departments (ED) with suspected lower respiratory tract infections, according to findings of the ProACT* trial presented at the recent sessions of the American Thoracic Society (ATS 2018).