A clinical case of bacteremia in severe sepsis: leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, procalcitonin level 84.6 ng/mL, and bacteria in the blood smear.
Patient from the emergency department. CBC: leukocytes - 2.02 (4.0-9.010^9/L), erythrocytes - 4.44 (3.8-5.71012/L), hemoglobin - 142 (117-173 g/L), platelets - 18 (150-400*109/L).
Intracellular and extracellular bacteria were found during blood smear microscopy. Procalcitonin - 84.6 (< 0.5 ng/mL).
🙏 Photos kindly provided by Vera Kirnas, Biologist, Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, F.S. Ankudinov Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Hospital.
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