IL6 and Neonatal sepsis: Tessema et al., 2020, reported a very similar performance of serum IL-6 compared to our results with a sensitivity of 73.1%, a specificity of 80.2%, a positive predictive value of 37.6% and a negative predictive value of 94.8%.28 However, the authors proposed a much higher cut-off value of 313.5 pg/ml for the diagnosis of neonatal sepsis.