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SUBMITTER: To KK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7173326 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
To Kelvin K W KK Lee Kim-Chung KC Wong Samson S Y SS Sze Kong-Hung KH Ke Yi-Hong YH Lui Yin-Ming YM Tang Bone S F BS Li Iris W S IW Lau Susanna K P SK Hung Ivan F N IF Law Chun-Yiu CY Lam Ching-Wan CW Yuen Kwok-Yung KY
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 20160314 2
Early diagnosis of acute community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is important in patient triage and treatment decisions. To identify biomarkers that distinguish patients with CAP from non-CAP controls, we conducted an untargeted global metabolome analysis for plasma samples from 142 patients with CAP (CAP cases) and 97 without CAP (non-CAP controls). Thirteen lipid metabolites could discriminate between CAP cases and non-CAP controls with area-under-the-receiver-operating-characteristic curve of >0.8 ...[more]