CXCL8 and Sepsis: Serum IL-8 level has been reported to increase in neonatal sepsisand have a sensitivity of about 80–90% and a specifity of about 76–100% [35, 36].In this study, it was detected that IL-8 levels of newborns with culture-provensepsis were significantly higher than culture-negative sepsis and controls (P<.05).