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Ultra-sensitive procalcitonin may help rule out bacterial infections in patients with cirrhosis
Sebastián Marciano
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sebastian.marciano@hospitalitaliano.org.ar

Correspondence and reprint request:
, Leila Haddad*, Alfredo P. Martínez**, María L. Posadas***, Federico Piñero*, Gonzalo J. Mora*, Laura N. Guerrero**, Ezequiel Ridruejo****, Oscar G. Mandó****, Diego H. Giunta***, Adrián C. Gadano*
* Liver Unit, Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
** Clinical Analysis Department, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas Norberto Quirno (CEMIC), Buenos Aires, Argentina
*** Internal Medicine Research Unit, Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
**** Liver Unit, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas Norberto Quirno (CEMIC), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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ascitic fluid analyses and a chest X-ray&#46; With this approach&#44; spontaneous bacterial peritonitis can be rapidly diagnosed&#46; However&#44; the diagnosis of other bacterial infections is not always straightforward&#44; especially in patients with encephalopathy&#46; For example&#44; since dyspnea and atelectasis are frequent in patients with ascites and malnutrition&#44; difficulties exists to diagnose pneumonia&#59; the presence of leukocyturia does not always correlate with urinary tract infection and the diagnosis of spontaneous bacteremia can only be established once the results of blood cultures are received&#46;</p><p id="p0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Thus&#44; when treating decompensated cirrhotic patients in whom bacterial infections are suspected but cannot be ruled out&#44; antibiotics are usually prescribed&#44; leading to possible over-prescription&#46;</p><p id="p0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the constant search for surrogate markers of bacterial infections&#44; 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axillary temperature &#8805; 37&#46;5 <span class="elsevierStyleSup">o</span>C&#44; chills&#44; SIRS&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a> new-onset encephalopathy or worsening of preexisting encephalopathy by at least one grade according to West Heaven Criteria&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> new onset ascites or hydrothorax or worsening of preexisting ascites or hydrothorax&#44; abdominal pain&#44; respiratory tract symptoms &#40;cough&#44; dyspnea or tachypnea&#41;&#44; urinary tract symptoms &#40;back pain and dysuria&#44; polaquiuria or tenesmus&#41;&#44; clinical evidence of pyodermitis &#40;cellulitis or erysipelas&#41;&#44; upper gastrointestinal bleeding &#40;esophageal or gastric varices or portal hypertensive gastropathy&#41;&#44; white blood cell &#40;WBC&#41; count &#8805; 10&#44;000&#47;mm<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a>&#44; increase in creatinine by 50&#37; from baseline or increase in bilirubin by 3 mg&#47;dL from baseline&#46; Patients receiving therapeutic antibiotics at screening or over the previous 7 days and&#47;or receiving immunosuppressors were excluded&#46; Patients receiving prophylaxis for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis could be included&#46; In patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding&#44; the clinical assessment and the complimentary studies had to be performed before the administration of prophylactic antibiotics in order to be included&#46; Patients could be re-enrolled in the study in different episodes of admission to the Emergency Department&#46;</p><p id="p0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the local ethics committee&#46; The Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies criteria &#40;STARD&#41; were used&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a></p></span><span id="s0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0030">Clinical assessments</span><p id="p0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">After enrollment&#44; data was collected for the medical history and a physical examination was performed&#46; Blood samples were collected in all patients for chemical and hematological determination and PCT&#46; Blood cultures&#44; urinary cultures and a chest X-ray were performed in all patients&#46; In patients with ascites or hydrothorax&#44; samples were obtained for chemical analysis and cultures&#46; Additional studies were performed in case the treating physician considered necessary&#46;</p></span><span id="s0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0035">Final diagnosis</span><p id="p0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Two independent hepatologists classified the patients as infected or not according to pre-defined criteria &#40;see below&#41;&#46; Investigators were blinded to PCT result&#46; In cases in which the hepatologists did not agree with the diagnosis&#44; a third hepatologist defined&#46; Infection was defined as any of the following&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="l0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis&#46;</span> Absolute polimorfonuclear count &#8805; 250 cells&#47;mm3 in ascitic fluid without an evident intra-abdominal&#44; surgically treatable source of infection&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Spontaneous bacterial empyema&#46;</span> Absolute polimorfonuclear count &#8805; 250 cells&#47;mm<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> in thoracic fluid without an evident intra-thoracic source of infection&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Spontaneous bacteremia&#46;</span> At least 1 positive blood culture &#40;excluding those considered contaminated&#41; without an evident source of infection&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0020"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Urinary tract infection&#44; pneumonia&#44; skin and soft tissue infection and other less frequent bacterial infections&#44; were defined based on standard criteria&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a></p></li></ul></p></span><span id="s0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0040">Procalcitonin assay</span><p id="p0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A blood sample was collected and stored at -20 &#176;C at screening before antibiotics were eventually prescribed&#46; Procalcitonin was measured by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay &#40;Elecsys Brahms PCT-Roche Diagnostics&#41;&#46; The assay has a measuring range between 0&#46;02 and 100 ng&#47;mL&#46;</p></span><span id="s0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0045">Statistical analysis</span><p id="p0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A sample of 94 episodes was estimated&#46; This was calculated accepting an expected test sensitivity and specificity of 92&#37; and 78&#37;&#44; respectively&#44; considering an estimated proportion of bacterial infection in cirrhotic patients assisted at the emergency department of 25&#37;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a> and a 95 confidence interval range of 0&#46;11&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">28</span></a></p><p id="p0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the descriptive analysis&#44; continuous variables are expressed as mean and standard deviation or median and interquartile range &#40;IQR&#41;&#44; depending on the observed distribution&#46; Continuous variables are compared using t-Test or Mann-Whitney test&#46; Categorical variables are compared using &#967;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> test&#46; Procalcitonin diagnostic performance was evaluated using receiver-operating characteristic &#40;ROC&#41; curves&#46; After selecting a clinical relevant cut-off point&#44; the sensitivity&#44; specificity&#44; negative predictive value and positive predictive value and their respective 95&#37; confidence interval&#44; were estimated&#46;</p><p id="p0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A multiple logistic-regression model was used to evaluate possible confounders&#46;</p><p id="p0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A P value &#60; 0&#46;05 was considered statistically significant&#46; All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software &#40;version 19&#41;&#46;</p></span></span><span id="s0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0050">Results</span><p id="p0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Between the November 1&#44; 2010 and June 1&#44; 2012&#44; 216 consecutive admissions to the Emergency Department of the Hospital Italiano from Buenos Aires were registered in 156 cirrhotic patients&#46; Eligibility criteria were fulfilled in 128 episodes&#46; Finally&#44; 106 episodes in 84 patients were included&#46; Three patients were lost to follow up &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Figure 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="f0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The prevalence of bacterial infection was 28&#37; &#40;29 episodes&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The baseline characteristics of the study population are shown in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#t0005">table 1</a>&#46; Patients in the infected group were older&#44; more likely to have fever and to be female&#44; and had higher creatinine&#44; bilirubin and WBC&#44; than patients in the not infected group&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="t0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Liver function assessed by Child-Pugh and MELD scores was similar in the two groups&#46;</p><p id="p0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The most common etiologies of cirrhosis were viral hepatitis&#44; alcohol related and cryptogenic&#46;</p><span id="s0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0055">Infected patients</span><p id="p0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Among the 29 infections&#44; the following diagnoses were made&#58; 13 &#40;45&#37;&#41; spontaneous bacterial peritonitis&#44; 7 &#40;24&#37;&#41; spontaneous bacteremias&#44; 4 &#40;14&#37;&#41; urinary tract infections&#44; 2 &#40;7&#37;&#41; pneumonias&#44; 2 &#40;7&#37;&#41; cellulitis and 1 &#40;3&#37;&#41; spontaneous bacterial empyema&#46; Fifty two percent of the infections were community-acquired&#44; 22&#37; health-related and 26&#37; nosocomial&#46; At least one culture was positive in 14 &#40;48&#37;&#41; episodes&#46; The most frequent isolated bacteria were <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">E&#46; coli&#44; K&#46; pneumonia&#44; S&#46; viridians</span> and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Staphylococcus spp&#46;</span> The cultures of the remaining cases were negative&#46;</p></span><span id="s0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0060">Not infected patients</span><p id="p0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The diagnosis of the 74 episodes considered not infected were worsening or new-onset ascites&#44; hydrothorax or encephalopathy due to disease progression or dietary or treatment non compliance &#40;37&#41;&#44; acute renal failure &#40;11&#41;&#44; increase in bilirubin due to disease progression &#40;8&#41;&#44; diarrhea and abdominal pain&#40;5&#41; and upper gastrointestinal bleeding &#40;3&#41;&#44; among others &#40;10&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At least one dose of antibiotic was empirically prescribed by the treating physician in 28&#37; of the episodes of the not infected patients&#46; Cefriaxone and piperacillin-tazobactam were the most frequently prescribed antibiotics&#46;</p></span><span id="s0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0065">Diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin</span><p id="p0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The median PCT was significantly higher in the infected group than in the not infected group &#40;0&#46;45 ng&#47;mL <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">vs&#46;</span> 0&#46;061 ng&#47;mL&#44; p &#60; 0&#46;001&#41;&#46; The diagnostic accuracy of PCT for bacterial infection estimated by the ROC curve was 0&#46;95 &#40;CI 95&#37;&#58; 0&#46;91-0&#46;99&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The statistical significance was still maintained after performing a multivariate analyses adjusting for age&#44; prothrombin time&#44; Child-Pugh&#44; creatinine&#44; WBC count and fever &#40;p &#60; 0&#46;001&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0010">Figure 2</a> shows the diagnostic accuracy of PCT&#46; When selecting a cutoff value of 0&#46;098 ng&#47;mL&#44; the following results were obtained for the diagnosis of bacterial infection&#58; sensitivity 97&#37; &#40;95&#37; CI&#58; 86-100&#37;&#41;&#44; specificity 82&#37; &#40;95&#37; CI&#58; 72-94&#37;&#41;&#44; negative predictive value 98&#37; &#40;95&#37; CI&#58; 94-100&#37;&#41; and positive predictive value 68&#37; &#40;95&#37; CI&#58; 51-88&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="f0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Six patients were included in the study in more than one episode of admission to the emergency department&#46; This gave us the opportunity to observe the intra-individual variation of PCT in different clinical situations&#46; In cases in which both episodes of infection and not infection were observed in the same patient&#44; PCT varied significantly&#46; In patients in whom all episodes were unrelated to bacterial infections&#44; PCT was persistently below 0&#46;098 ng&#47;mL&#46; Finally&#44; in patients in whom all episodes were related to bacterial infections&#44; PCT was persistently above 0&#46;098 ng&#47;mL&#46;</p></span></span><span id="s0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0070">Discussion</span><p id="p0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this study we found a great accuracy of PCT to identify patients with cirrhosis at very low risk of bacterial infections&#46;</p><p id="p0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Procalcitonin plasmatic concentration has been reported to rise in bacterial infections in different clinical settings in the non-cirrhotic population&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a></p><p id="p0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Studies in patients with cirrhosis were performed with different PCT assays and vary greatly in design&#46; However&#44; median PCT levels were consistently higher in infected patients in comparison with not infected patients&#44; regardless of the PCT assay that was used&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a> Moreover&#44; PCT levels in patients with stable cirrhosis are in the physiological range<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> and rise in cases of bacterial infections&#44; even in patients with advanced liver disease&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a> These characteristics make PCT an attractive surrogate marker of bacterial infections in patients with cirrhosis&#46;</p><p id="p0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Most of the studies that evaluated PCT in patients with cirrhosis proposed different cut-off points in order to support the diagnosis of bacterial infections&#46; Consequently&#44; relatively high PCT cut-off points were selected&#44; and&#44; as a result greater specificity than sensitivity results were obtained&#46; The initial studies used assays with sub-optimal lower limits of detection&#44; ranging from 0&#46;1 ng&#47;mL to 0&#46;5 ng&#47;mL&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> These studies reported sensitivities between 60 and 72&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a></p><p id="p0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A highly sensitive PCT assay &#40;lower limit of detection 0&#46;02 ng&#47;mL&#41; such as the one we used&#44; was explored more recently in a study performed by Lazzarotto&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">30</span></a> In this study&#44; using a cut-off value of 0&#46;1 ng&#47;mL&#44; a sensitivity of 96&#37; and a negative predictive value of 96&#37; was found&#46; We also selected a low PCT cut-off point&#44; in order to obtain a high sensitivity and negative predictive value&#46; In our study with a cut-off value of 0&#46;098 ng&#47;mL we found a sensitivity of 97&#37; and a negative predictive value of 98&#37; &#40;AUROC of 0&#46;95&#41;&#46; These findings suggest a potential role of PCT to early identify patients who are at very low risk of bacterial infections&#46;</p><p id="p0200" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Comparing results among different studies assessing PCT in patients with cirrhosis should carefully be performed because inclusion and exclusion criteria might vary&#46; In our study&#44; we decided to include patients expressing a wide range of clinical and&#47;or biochemical signs of deterioration frequently observed in patients with cirrhosis&#44; and that in practice usually lead to perform a work-up to rule out bacterial infections&#46; We did not include all patients with cirrhosis admitted to the emergency department&#44; because that would have resulted in the enrolment of a great number of patients without a significant risk of bacterial infection&#46;</p><p id="p0205" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Moreover&#44; we found that PCT accuracy to diagnose bacterial infections was observed in different episodes of admission to the Emergency Department in the same patient&#46;</p><p id="p0210" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Recurrent admissions in patients with endstage liver disease&#44; particularly due to ascites and encephalopathy are frequent&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">31</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0165"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">33</span></a> Procalcitonin might be a useful tool to apply in these cases&#44; especially because this population usually requires broad spectrum antibiotics for epidemiological reasons&#46;</p><p id="p0215" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In our study&#44; the treating physician prescribed at least one dose of antibiotics in 28&#37; of the admissions of the not infected patients&#46; This reflects the difficulties to diagnose bacterial infections in the emergency department in patients with cirrhosis&#46;</p><p id="p0220" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The PCT assay has a total duration of 18 minutes&#44; resulting in valuable information immediately available to the treating physician&#46; Furthermore&#44; in our region&#44; this PCT assay is inexpensive&#46; Its cost is comparable to two blood cultures&#46;</p><p id="p0225" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our study has some limitations&#46; First&#44; PCT was not compared with other inflammatory markers&#44; such as C-reactive protein &#40;CRP&#41;&#46; Prior studies compared the performance of CRP and PCT in patients with cirrhosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a> These studies found a better performance of CRP over PCT&#46; However&#44; the PCT assay that was used was sub-optimal&#44; with lower limits of detections not better than 0&#46;1 ng&#47;mL&#46; It would be of interest in future trials&#44; to compare the performance of PCR with this ultra-sensitive PCT assay&#46; Second&#44; although the number of patients enrolled might seem small&#44; it adequately represents the sample size estimated to provide the specific power&#46; Further validation is desired in order to confirm our findings&#46; Finally&#44; serial determinations of PCT were not performed&#44; which could have added valuable information to guide antibiotic therapy and predict outcomes&#46;</p><p id="p0230" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; we found a great accuracy of PCT to identify patients with cirrhosis at very low risk of bacterial infections&#46; We believe this might be of great help&#44; especially in patients in whom the diagnosis of bacterial infection cannot be confirmed or ruled-out with the initial work-up&#46; Further studies evaluating PCT-guided antibiotic therapy should specifically address its role in avoiding antibiotic over-prescription&#46;</p></span><span id="s0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0075">Abbreviations</span><p id="p0235" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="l0010"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0025"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0240" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">AUROC&#58;</span> area under the ROC curve&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0030"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0245" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">HCC&#58;</span> hepatocellular carcinoma&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0035"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0250" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">IQR&#58;</span> interquartile range&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0040"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0255" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">PCT&#58;</span> procalcitonin&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0045"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0260" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">ROC&#58;</span> receiver-operating characteristic&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0050"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0265" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">SB&#58;</span> spontaneous bacteremia&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0055"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0270" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">SBP&#58;</span> spontaneous bacterial peritonitis&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0060"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0275" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">SIRS&#58;</span> systemic inflammatory response s yndrome&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0065"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0280" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">UTI&#58;</span> urinary tract infection&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0070"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0285" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">WBC&#58;</span> white blood cell&#46;</p></li></ul></p></span><span id="s0070" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0080">Conflict of Interest</span><p id="p0290" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">No conflict of interest or financial support to declare&#46;</p></span></span>"
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