Table 1. Patients Who Experienced Development of Dysfunctional MO Had Higher Occurrences of Infectious Complications.

Group	Number of patients who acquired infection	Number of patients who did not acquire infection
Patients detected with MO to DC differentiation defect: total, 18; female, 3; male, 15; average age: 40.8 ± 8; average ISS at admission: 25.9 ± 0.8; maximum MODS during study period: 9.6 ± 0.7a	Total: 11;b pneumonia (positive sputum culture):, 7 pneumonia leading to sepsis: 4; bacteremia (positive blood culture): 3; bacteremia leading to sepsis, 1; both positive sputum culture and positive blood culture leading to sepsis, 1; percentage of infected patients who developed sepsis: 54.6%	7
Patients never detected with MO to DC differentiation defect: total, 54; female, 15; male, 39; average age: 38.6 ± 2.3; average ISS at admission: 26.2 ± 0.7; maximum MODS during study period: 7.5 ± 0.3	Total: 15; pneumonia (positive sputum culture): 13; pneumonia leading to sepsis: 4; bacteremia (positive blood culture): 2; bacteremia leading to sepsis: 1; both positive sputum culture and positive blood culture leading to sepsis: 0; percentage of infected patients who developed sepsis: 33.3%	39

^aP = 0.0041 by t test compared with average maximum MODS suffered by patients with differentiation-competent MDDCs.

^bP = 0.0215 by two-tailed Fishers exact test and 0.0108 by χ² test compared with infection-occurrence rate of patients with differentiation-competent MO. Averages of age, ISS at admission, and maximum MODS suffered during the study period are presented as mean ± sem.