MEDLINE search strategy
| #1 | sepsis.mp. or exp Sepsis/ |
| #2 | septic shock.mp. or Shock, Septic/ |
| #3 | fung?emia.mp. or Fungemia/ |
| #4 | bacter?emia.mp. or Bacteremia/ |
| #5 | blood?stream infection$.mp. |
| #6 | blood poison$.mp. |
| #7 | Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/ or SIRS.mp. |
| #8 | septic?emia.mp. |
| #9 | "severe sepsis".mp. |
| #10 | (presumed adj4 sepsis).mp. |
| #11 | (suspected adj4 sepsis).mp. |
| #12 | #1 or #2 or #3 or #4 or #5 or #6 or #7 or #8 or #9 or #10 or #11 |
| #13 | PCR.mp. or Polymerase Chain Reaction/ |
| #14 | SeptiFast.mp. |
| #15 | LightCycler.mp. |
| #16 | multiplex PCR.mp. |
| #17 | real time PCR.mp. |
| #18 | real?time PCR.mp. |
| #19 | Molecular Diagnostic Techniques/ or molecular diagnosis.mp. |
| #20 | molecular identification.mp. |
| #21 | #13 or #14 or #15 or #16 or #17 or #18 or #19 or #20 |
| #22 | blood cultur$.mp. |
| #23 | Bacteriological Techniques/mt [Methods] |
| #24 | Blood/mi [Microbiology] |
| #25 | #22 or #23 or #24 |
| #26 | #12 and #21 and #25 |
| #27 | Animals/ |
| #28 | #26 not #27 |
| #29 | Viruses/ |
| #30 | #28 not #29 |
| #31 | limit #30 to (humans and yr=“2006 -Current”) |
mp=protocol supplementary concept, rare disease supplementary concept, title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word, unique identifier.