Ordering Recommendations

Diagnosis of bacteremia and septicemia in adults and children (including neonates)
Diagnosis of renal involvement in urinary tract infection in children
Diagnosis of bacterial infection in neutropenic patients
Diagnosis, risk stratification, and monitoring of septic shock
Diagnosis of systemic secondary infection post-surgery, and 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