Cytokines and Chemokines as Biomarkers of Community-Acquired Bacterial Infection

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with bacterial infection.

Parameters	Bacterial infection
	𝑛=21
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