Some of acute phase reactants in malnourished infants

ABSTRACT

The usefulness of clinical features of infection as well as some of laboratory screening tests in the diagnosis of infection in malnourlished infants were evaluated in this study in Zagazig University Hospital in 1989. Fourty infants with PEM were included in this study. 25 cases were associated clinically with manifestations of infection and 15 cases without any manifestations. Chest was the commonest site of infection and followed by GIT. Fever was the commonest clinical presentation of infection in PEM. ESR, C-Reactive protein, total white blood cell count, absolute band cell count and Band/Segmented ratio were the laboratory tests, used for derection of infection in PEM. There was no significant difference between both groups as regard of C-reactive protein, absolute band count and band/segmented ratio