Table 1.

Patient characteristics

Patient	Sex, age (years)	Underlying disease	Diagnosis of infection	Significant culture findings	APACHE II score, debut/inclusion	Day 28 mortality
1	Male, 56	Renal transplantation	Streptococcal sepsis	β-Haemolysing streptococci group A in wound culture	27/26	Alive
2	Female, 85	Hypertension	Bilateral pneumonia	No positive cultures	21/20	Alive
3	Female, 53	Arteriosclerosis, infected aortic graft	Postoperative sepsis	Coagulase-negative staphylococci in graft culture	15/16	Dead
4	Male, 81	Cholelithiasis	Klebsiella sepsis, cholecystitis	Klebsiella pneumophila in blood culture	22/16	Alive
5	Male, 21	Pancreatitis	Pancreatic abscess	No positive cultures	12/13	Alive
6	Male, 74	Aortic aneurysm	Postoperative abdominal infection	Proteus mirabilis, Citrobacter freudi, Candida albicans and Candida glabrata in abdominal fluid and wound cultures	20/18	Dead
7	Male, 55	Stroke, alcohol abuse, angina pectoris	Burn wound infection	Enterobacter cloacae and Klebsiella pneumophila in wound cultures	16/18	Alive
8	Male, 61	Alcohol abuse, malignancy, hypercalcemia	Pneumonia	No positive cultures	18/11	Alive
9	Female, 78	Angina pectoris, necrotising pancreatitis	Postoperative sepsis	Candida albicans in tracheal culture	15/22	Alive
10	Female, 51	Diabetes, arteriosclerosis, myocardial infarctions, infarction in cerebellum, embolus in arteria poplitea and compartment syndrome	Necrotising infection of the calf muscles	Enterococcus faecalis in blood culture	28/18	Alive
11	Male, 74	Sigmoideum cancer	Postoperative abdominal infection?	No positive cultures	13/13	Alive
12	Female, 73	Idiopathic thrombocytopaenia, arteriosclerosis, aortic graft	Postoperative sepsis	Staphylococcus aureus in wound culture	12/14	Alive