Table 1.
Search strategy in PubMed database.
| Number | Search terms |
| #1 | Sepsis[MeSH] |
| #2 | Pyaemia[Title/Abstract] |
| #3 | Pyemia[Title/Abstract] |
| #4 | Pyohemia[Title/Abstract] |
| #5 | Blood Poisoning[Title/Abstract] |
| #6 | Poisoning, Blood[Title/Abstract] |
| #7 | Septicemia[Title/Abstract] |
| #8 | Severe Sepsis[Title/Abstract] |
| #9 | Blood Poisonings[Title/Abstract] |
| #10 | Poisonings, Blood[Title/Abstract] |
| #11 | Pyaemias[Title/Abstract] |
| #12 | Pyemias[Title/Abstract] |
| #13 | Pyohemias[Title/Abstract] |
| #14 | Sepsis, Severe[Title/Abstract] |
| #15 | Septicemias[Title/Abstract] |
| #16 | or/1-15 |
| #17 | Interleukin-8[MeSH] |
| #18 | IL-8[Title/Abstract] |
| #19 | or/17-18 |
| #20 | polymorph∗[Title/Abstract] |
| #21 | susceptibility[Title/Abstract] |
| #22 | or/20-21 |
| #23 | #16 and #19 and #22 |