With blood culture results as the dependent variable (positive = 1, negative = 0), the following factors were included in the analysis: admission to the intensive care unit (yes), length of hospital stay ≥2 weeks, biliary tract disease (present), hepatitis B virus infection (present), pleural effusion (present), ascites (present), pulmonary infection (present), extrahepatic abscess (present), ALT ≥50, serum creatinine ≥80, PCT ≥5, platelet count ≤100, maximum temperature after admission ≥39°C, qSOFA score ≥ 2, and liver abscess size ≤5 cm. The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is Liver abscess.