The AUC to discriminate septic shock from sepsis was highest for lactate (AUC, 0.751), followed by sTREM-1 (AUC, 0.624), Gal-9 (AUC, 0.614), sCD25 (AUC, 0.607), and CRP (AUC, 0.559). Here, CRP is linked to Sepsis.