IL6 and bacterial infectious disease with sepsis: Soker et al. (2001) [18] observed significantly higher median IL-6 levels in Gram-negative bacteremia (166 pg/mL; range: 21–1780) compared to Gram-positive cases (26 pg/mL; range: 16–33; p = 0.042) in a small pediatric cohort (n = 11 bacteremia).