Abstract:Objective To investigate the correlation between blood inflammatory markers and patients' condition in patients with sepsis-related bacterial infection. Methods A total of 109 patients, who were admitted to the hospital for sepsis bacterial infections from September 2010 to February 2015, were selected and divided to septic-shock group, severe-sepsis group and sepsis group according to the severity of disease. Distribution of infectious bacteria was investigated. Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE-Ⅱ) score, procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP), lipopolysacchride (LPS), interleukin 6 (IL-6), white blood cell count (WBC), neutrophil percentage (NEUT) and other inflammatory marker levels were compared among the groups; and the correlations between the inflammatory markers and APACHE-Ⅱ score were analyzed. Results The main bacteria of sepsis were Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, coagulase-negative Staphylococci, Staphylococcus aureus and Candida yeast with infection rates were 22.94%, 21.10% and 13.76%, 11.93% and 9.17% respectively, followed by Acinetobacter baumannii (7.34%) and Enterobacter cloacae (5.50%). The APACHE-Ⅱ scores of the septic-shock group, the severe-sepsis group and the sepsis group were (26.27 ±5.68), (21.08 ± 4.96) and (12.14 ± 3.75) respectively. The blood PCT, CRP, LPS, IL-6, WBC and NEUT decreased in turn in the septic-shock group, the severe-sepsis group and the sepsis group, and the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). In the sepsis patients with bacterial infection, the APACHE-Ⅱ scores were positively correlated with the blood PCT, CRP, LPS and IL-6 (r = 0.579, 0.734, 0.621 and 0.685; P < 0.05). Conclusions The infectious bacteria in sepsis patients are mainly Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, plasma coagulase-negative Staphylococcus. Blood PCT, CRP, LPS and IL-6 levels are positively correlated with the severity of the disease, which can be used as indicators for predicting the condition and prognosis.