Clinical Study
Cytokines and Chemokines as Biomarkers of Community-Acquired Bacterial Infection
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with bacterial infection.
| Parameters | Bacterial infection | |
| Demographic characteristics | | Years of Age (mean; range) | 48; 18–85 | Sex (female/male) | 11/10 | Clinical characteristics | | Fever (days; mean ± SD) | 3 ± 3 | Hospitalization (days; mean ± SD) | 12 ± 6 | Diagnosis | | Bacterial pneumonia | 9 | Pyelonephritis | 6 | Erysipelas | 3 | Urosepsis | 2 | Toxic shock syndrome | 1 | Etiologic agents | | Escherichia coli | 5 | Streptococcus pneumoniae | 2 | Chlamydophila pneumoniae | 1 | Streptococcus agalactiae | 1 |
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