Table-I.

Comparison of baseline and clinical characteristics among bacteremia and non-bacteremia groups

Patient characteristics	Total (n=100)	Bacteremia (n=19)	Non-bacteremia (n=81)	P-value
Age
Less than 40 years	45	9	36	0.818
Greater than 40 years	55	10	45
Gender
Female	57	8	35	0.930
Male	43	11	46
Disease classification
SJS	70	10	60
TEN	18	4	14	0.077
SJS and TEN overlap	12	5	7
Past medical history
Hypertension	39	7	32	0.830
Diabetes	22	5	17	0.614
Neuro-psychiatric illness	17	4	13	0.601
Chronic Kidney Disease	10	4	6	0.074
Ischemic Heart Disease	9	4	5	0.041
Malignancy	4	2	2	0.162
Respiratory Disease	3	2	1	0.033
Autoimmune diseases	2	0	2	0.489
Endocrine diseases	1	0	1	0.626
Chronic liver diseases	1	0	1	0.626
Prior history of SJS	3	0	3	0.528
Clinical manifestation
No sepsis	8	0	8
Sepsis	73	9	64	<0.001
Septic Shock	19	10	9
Positive history of precipitating drug use	67	14	53	0.378
SCORTEN score				0.040
Less than 4	76	11	65
Equal to or more than 4	24	8	16
ICU admission	12	7	5	<0.001
Complications
Electrolyte imbalance	56	17	39	0.001
Acute kidney injury	43	11	32	0.145
Liver injury	40	12	28	0.026
Deranged coagulation	20	11	9	<0.001
Elevated troponin	13	6	7	0.007
Infective parameters [Median (IQR)]
C-reactive protein (ug/mL)	12.7 (4.2-17.4)	13.7 (4.6-19.0)	12.0 (3.9-16.9)	0.411
Procalcitonin (ng/mL)	1.1 (0.2-6.4)	9.7 (0.9-35.7)	0.4 (0.1-2.8)	0.007
Length of stay
Less than 7 days	67	12	55
Equal or more than 7 days	33	7	26	0.692
Outcome
Discharged	81	9	72
Expired	15	9	6	<0.001
LAMA	4	1	3