IL6 and Sepsis: The predictive ability to identify children who progressed to sepsis was significantly moderate for PCT (AUC 0.82), D-dimer (AUC 0.80), CRP (AUC 0.80), and IL-6 (AUC 0.74) and was significantly mild for N% (AUC 0.68) and HBP (AUC 0.67).