Eosinophil count (EC) as a diagnostic and prognostic marker for infection in the internal medicine department setting

Abstract

Introduction. Eosinopenia has been previously investigated as a marker to differentiate infectious from non-infectious diagnoses and as a prognostic marker. Most previous studies were conducted in intensive care unit patients. Our study focuses on the value of eosinopenia in patients admitted to the Internal Medicine department.

Keywords

• diagnosis
• eosinophils
• infection
• internal medicine
• prognosis