Useful For

Used in the diagnosis of bacteremia and septicemia in adults and children (including neonates), renal involvement in urinary tract infection in children, bacterial infection in neutropenic patients, and in the diagnosis, risk stratification, and monitoring of septic shock, systemic secondary infection post surgery,as well as in severe trauma, burns, and multiorgan failure.

Differential diagnosis of bacterial versus viral meningitis.

Differential diagnosis of community-acquired bacterial versus viral pneumonia.

Monitoring of therapeutic response to antibacterial therapy