The AUC to discriminate sepsis from NIOF was highest for CRP (AUC, 0.843), followed by sCD25 (AUC, 0.746), sTREM-1 (AUC, 0.655), Gal-9 (AUC, 0.638), and lactate (AUC, 0.519). Here, LGALS9 is linked to Sepsis.