To evaluate the accuracy of new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for neonatal sepsis targeting the host response in our selected study subjects, certain transcriptional biomarkers (CD74, CX3CR1) and protein biomarkers (PCT, IL-6, IL-10, IP-10) were also analyzed, as in our previous study on the same cohort (44). The gene discussed is CXCL10; the disease is Neonatal sepsis.