... of the abdominalinfection focus was performed in accordance with theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta,GA, USA) c riteria for gastrointestinal infection and forinfections ... infection (without abdominalinfection), 5 had an abdominal infection (without lung infection) and seven had both infections. A-sTREM washigher in the patients with pneumonia compared to those without ... sTREM-1, or inthetypeofpatientsincluded in the study. Anand and colleagues [21] segre-gated their patient population as those without VAP (n= 21), with definite VAP (n = 19), with indefinite...