CRP and Neonatal sepsis: Due to the lack of unique biomarkers to date, the early identification of neonatal sepsis relies primarily on clinical laboratory tests such as C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), and white blood cell (WBC) (Bunduki and Adu-Sarkodie, 2020; Boscarino et al., 2023), which are not feasible to simultaneously achieve high specificity and high sensitivity.