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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomarkers. 2016 May 16;21(5):404–408. doi: 10.3109/1354750X.2015.1118538

Table 5.

Median IL-27 and Procalcitonin Levels

Bacterial infection
N=180
Median (IQR)
No bacterial infection
N=495
Median (IQR)
p-value
Bacterial infection vs. no bacterial infection
AUC for discriminating bacterial infection from no bacterial infection (95% C.I.)
IL-27 ng/mL 1.7 (1.2 – 2.6) 1.3 (0.8 – 2.1) <0.001 0.61 (0.56 – 0.65)
PCT ng/mL 8.6 (7.3–10.1) 7.7 (5.6 – 9.2) <0.001 0.62 (0.57 – 0.67)