Fig. 1.

Dogs with sepsis have significantly greater plasma procalcitonin concentrations than healthy controls. A box and whisker plot comparing the plasma procalcitonin (PCT) concentrations from 12 healthy control dogs and 53 dogs with sepsis. The central lines represent the median, the boundaries of the boxes represent the interquartile range and the whiskers represent the minimum and maximum values. Dogs with sepsis had significantly greater plasma concentrations of PCT compared to healthy controls (P < 0.001) by Mann-Whitney U test