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Pr Jacques Schrenzel 
Laboratoire de recherche génomique 
Drs Stéphane Emonet 
Service des maladies infectieuses (JS) 
Département des spécialités de médecine 
Drs Abdessalam Cherkaoui et Arnaud Riat 
Laboratoire de bactériologie (JS, SE) 
Département de médecine génétique et de laboratoire 
HUG, 1211 Genève 14 
Pr Gilbert Greub 
Institut de microbiologie 
Université de Lausanne et CHUV 
1011 Lausanne 
Adresses
Implications pratiques
Les infections respiratoires représentent la première cause 
de prescription d’antibiotiques, qu’il est possible de limiter 
par l’utilisation de POCT (point-of-care tests) simples
La probabilité clinique prétest est la clé d’une interprétation 
correcte de résultats paracliniques
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