Table 2.
Detailed description of the medical patients
| Patient | Group | ||||
| Uncomplicated sepsis (n = 8) | |||||
| Diagnosis | Site of infection | Microorganism | Material | ||
| 1 | Pneumonia/COPD | Respiratory | Not identified | Sputum/Blood | |
| 2 | Pneumonia/COPD | Respiratory | Staphylococcus aureus | Blood | |
| 3 | Pneumonia/Stroke | Respiratory | Not identified | Sputum/Blood | |
| 4 | Pneumonia/Guillain-Barre syndrome | Respiratory | Enterobacter sp | Sputum | |
| 5 | Pneumonia/Subarachnoid hemorrhage | Respiratory | Staphylococcus sp | Blood | |
| 6 | Pneumonia/DM/Pickwick syndrome | Respiratory | Not identified | Sputum/Blood | |
| 7 | Pneumonia/Head trauma | Respiratory | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Sputum | |
| 8 | Pneumonia/Intracerebral hemorrhage | Respiratory | S. aureus | Sputum | |
| Septic shock (n = 12) | |||||
| Diagnosis | Site of infection | Microorganism | Material | ||
| 1 | Pneumonia/COPD | Respiratory | S. aureus | Blood | |
| 2 | Pneumonia | Respiratory | S. aureus | Sputum | |
| 3 | Pneumonia/COPD | Respiratory | S. aureus | Blood | |
| 4 | Pneumonia/COPD | Respiratory | P. aeruginosa/Haemophilus influenzae | Sputum | |
| 5 | Pneumonia/UTI | Respiratory/Urinary | Not identified/Klebsiella pneumoniae | Sputum/Urine | |
| 6 | Pneumonia/UTI/DM | Respiratory/Urinary | Not identified/Candida sp | Sputum/Blood and urine | |
| 7 | UTI/SBP/Cirrhosis | Abdominal/Urinary | S. aureus and Streptococcus viridans/Enterococcus faecium, S. viridans, and Escherichia coli | Ascites/Urine | |
| 8 | Pneumonia | Respiratory | Not identified | Sputum/Blood | |
| 9 | Pneumonia/COPD | Respiratory | Not identified | Sputum/Blood | |
| 10 | Meningitis | CNS | Neisseria meningitis | Liquor/Blood | |
| 11 | UTI/Lyell syndrome | Urinary/Skin | Enterococcus sp/Acinetobacter sp | Urine/Skin secretion | |
| 12 | Pneumonia | Respiratory | S. aureus | Blood | |
| Sepsis-induced ARDS (n = 9) | |||||
| Diagnosis | Site of infection | Microorganism | Material | ||
| 1 | Pneumonia/Leptospirosis | Respiratory | Enterobacter sp | Sputum | |
| 2 | Pneumonia/Suicide attempt (glicosate ingestion) | Respiratory | P. aeruginosa | Sputum | |
| 3 | Pneumonia/UTI/Diarrhea | Respiratory, Urinary, and Intestinal | Not identified/K. pneumoniae/E. coli OH157 | Sputum/Urine/Feces | |
| 4 | Pneumonia/UTI/DM | Respiratory/Urinary | Streptococcus agalactiae, S. aureus/Staphylococcus sp, E. coli | Blood/Urine | |
| 5 | Pneumonia | Respiratory | Haemophilus sp | Sputum | |
| 6 | Septic arthritis | Joint | S. aureus | Sinovial liquid | |
| 7 | Pneumonia | Respiratory | Not identified | Sputum/Blood | |
| 8 | Pneumonia | Respiratory | E. coli, Moraxella sp | Sputum | |
| 9 | Pneumonia/COPD | Respiratory | Not identified | Sputum/Blood | |
| Mechanical ventilation (n = 11) | |||||
| Diagnosis | |||||
| 1 | Anaphylaxis (anaesthesia) | ||||
| 2 | Head trauma | ||||
| 3 | Spinal cord trauma | ||||
| 4 | Subarachnoid hemorrhage | ||||
| 5 | Subarachnoid hemorrhage | ||||
| 6 | Intracerebral hemorrhage | ||||
| 7 | Anaphylaxis (anaesthesia) | ||||
| 8 | Guillain-Barre syndrome | ||||
| 9 | Intracerebral hemorrhage | ||||
| 10 | Anaphylaxis (anaesthesia) | ||||
| 11 | Epilepsy | ||||
ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; CNS, central nervous system; COPD, chronic obstructive respiratory disease; DM, diabetes mellitus; SBP, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis; UTI, urinary tract infection.