id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-256154-i6bs536s Cheng, Chao-Wen New markers in pneumonia 2013-04-18 .txt text/plain 6394 292 37 These biomarkers, as reflected in specific biological responses to infections, have been reported to demonstrate the ability to facilitate the diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of pneumonia. According to this definition, a qualified biomarker of pneumonia should be used to accomplish at least one or more of the following tasks: perform a rapid and accurate diagnosis and less affected by other diseases, identify the types of pathogenic microorganisms for specific antibiotics treatment, and reflect the status of successful prognosis therapy or remain elevated with the infectious stimulus [9, 10] . In addition to discriminating the accurate diagnosis of pneumonia, PCT levels demonstrated their prognostic value in CAP patients [52, 53] . Circulating levels of the long pentraxin PTX3 correlate with severity of infection in critically ill patients Plasma long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) concentration is a novel marker of disease activity in patients with community-acquired pneumonia ./cache/cord-256154-i6bs536s.txt ./txt/cord-256154-i6bs536s.txt