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cord-280629-vb0002nx	Liu, Kuan-Ting	Characteristics of Febrile Patients with Normal White Blood Cell Counts and High C-Reactive Protein Levels in an Emergency Department	2008-05-31		.txt	text/plain	2148	133	54	title: Characteristics of Febrile Patients with Normal White Blood Cell Counts and High C-Reactive Protein Levels in an Emergency Department Many febrile patients have markedly elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) levels and normal white blood cell (WBC) counts. Factors other than malignant neoplasm or hematologic illness may be associated with the WBC response, and CRP may be a better indicator of infection under such conditions. Because the period of study was within 1 year of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, all febrile patients received blood examinations including WBC count and CRP level. χ 2 and Fisher's exact tests were used to examine the correlation between gender, cause of fever, hospitalization, type of infection and mortality with underlying malignant neoplasm and/or hematologic disease. Many studies have focused on the use of CRP in patients with malignancy, hematologic disease or neutropenia, because these patients do not have normal WBC response to infection [3, 4, 12, [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] .	./cache/cord-280629-vb0002nx.txt	./txt/cord-280629-vb0002nx.txt