CRP and infection: When the data was applied to a hypothetical cohort of 1,000000 newborn infants with suspected late-onset infection, it was estimated that about 152 cases of infection would be missed (i.e., false negatives), and 156 non-infected infants would be wrongly diagnosed (i.e., false positive) [6]. Therefore, serum CRP levels are unlikely to be considered sufficiently accurate to aid early diagnosis or improve the accuracy of treatment.