CRP and bacterial infectious disease with sepsis: For the prediction of bacterial sepsis, PCT outperformed the other biomarkers with an AUC (95% CI) of 0.77 (0.72–0.82), compared to HNL 0.72 (0.67–0.77), CRP 0.71 (0.66–0.76), and leucocyte count 0.64 (0.59–0.70).