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Table 5 Exploring the association between patients with clinical sepsis and non-clinical sepsis in correlation to the viral panel during emergency department presentations

From: Procalcitonin and C-reactive protein as early diagnostic markers of sepsis or septic shock in children who presented with fever to the pediatric emergency department at a tertiary hospital, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Variables

clinical Sepsis (n = 84)

Non- clinical Sepsis (n = 124)

Frequency (Sepsis/Non-Sepsis)

P-value

PCR NPA

Positive

Negative

Not Done

Positive

Negative

Not Done

PCR RSV

6

58

20

5

87

32

6/84 for Sepsis, 5/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.60

PCR BOCAVIRUS

1

63

20

2

90

32

1/84 for Sepsis, 2/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.91

PCR Enterovirus

1

62

20

0

92

32

1/83 for Sepsis, 0/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.45

PCR Adenovirus

2

62

20

1

91

32

2/84 for Sepsis, 1/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.62

PCR Influenza H1N1

1

63

20

0

92

32

1/84 for Sepsis, 0/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.45

PCR Rhinovirus

12

52

20

5

87

32

12/84 for Sepsis, 5/124 for Non-Sepsis

*<0.02

PCR COVID19

3

61

20

1

91

32

3/84 for Sepsis, 1/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.35

PCR Influenza A

4

60

20

3

89

32

4/84 for Sepsis, 3/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.63

PCR Influenza B

0

64

20

3

89

32

0/84 for Sepsis, 3/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.32

PCR Influenza H3

0

64

20

1

91

32

0/84 for Sepsis, 1/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.66

PCR Parainfluenza

2

62

20

3

89

32

2/84 for Sepsis, 3/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.94

Human Metapneumovirus

4

60

20

1

01

32

4/84 for Sepsis, 1/124 for Non-Sepsis

0.18

  1. * p < 0.05, suggesting a statistically significant association