Platelet count: Is it a possible marker for severity and outcome of community acquired pneumonia?

Background: Platelets have been increasingly recognized as an important component of innate and adaptive immunity. Platelet response in antimicrobial host defense is similar, in many ways, to the leukocyte response: both cell types contain antimicrobial peptides that act against a broad range of pat...

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Main Authors: Ashraf A. ElMaraghy, Eman B. AbdelFattah, Mostafa S. Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-04-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763815300807