Statistically significant discriminants between infection and no infection include the presence of fever (P = 0.041), discharge at the wound site (P < 0.0001), and elevated CRP (P = 0.042, serum CRP being 21.01 mg/L ± 5.28 SEM in patients with infection versus 6.09 mg/L ± 1.53 SEM in those without infection). This evidence concerns the gene CRP and infection.