Elevated Serum Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Is Associated with Septic Encephalopathy in Adult Community-Onset Severe Sepsis Patients

Table 2

Sources of infection in septic encephalopathy (SE) and non-SE groups.

Sources of infection	SE group; 𝑛=23	Non-SE group; 𝑛=47	𝑃 value
Respiratory tract infection	8 (36.4)	19 (40.4)	0.955
Urinary tract infection	4 (18.2)	9 (19.1)
Intra-abdominal infection	4 (18.2)	10 (21.3)
Soft tissue infection	5 (22.7)	7 (14.9)
Unknown origin	1 (4.5)	2 (4.3)
Concurrent bacteremia episode	13 (56.5)	21 (44.7)	0.192
Causative pathogens			0.56
Gram-negative
Escherichia coli	5 (21.7)	6 (12.8)
Klebsiellapneumoniae	2 (8.7)	8 (17.0)
Proteus mirabilis	1 (4.3)	1 (2.1)
Burkholderiapseudomallei	1 (4.3)	0 (0)
Salmonella enteritidis	1 (4.3)	0 (0)
Gram-positive
Streptococcus pneumoniae	0 (0)	2 (4.3)
β-Hemolytic Streptococcus group A	1 (4.3)	2 (4.3)
Staphylococcus aureus	2 (8.7)	2 (4.3)