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In patients with HIV infection, although bacteremia in general is more frequently associated with growth of gram-positive pathogens, genitourinary sepsis is more frequently related to the detection of gram-negative bacteria [ 26 ] . Our finding of E coli to be the most common gram-negative organism differs from findings in previous studies.
Ideal profiles have a defining set composed of one protein each from a eukaryote, an archaeon, a Gram-positive bacterium and a Gram-negative bacterium, and one yeast mitochondrial protein.
Infections were microbiologically proven in 36 (88%) conditions, with 51% being Gram-negative, 41% Gram-positive and 8% mixed infections.
In response to minute concentrations of LPS derived from certain Gram-negative bacteria, macrophages secrete cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF), interleukin-1 (IL-1) and IL-6, which contribute to the containment of infection and help to initiate a specific immune response.
Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), or endotoxin, is found only in Gram-negative bacterial cell walls; it can on its own induce the acute inflammatory response and the clinical characteristics associated with sepsis.