Patent ID: 7622249

Claim:
A method for diagnosing and/or predicting a septic syndrome, the method comprising: a. obtaining a blood sample from a patient; b. extracting biological material from the blood sample; c. contacting the biological material with: a reagent for demonstrating expression of IL-10 gene, a reagent for demonstrating expression of TGFβ gene, a reagent for demonstrating expression of HMG1 gene, a reagent for demonstrating expression of IL-1β gene; and a reagent for demonstrating expression of T-bet gene; d. determining the expression levels of the IL-10 gene, TGFβ gene, the HMG1 gene, the IL-1β gene and the T-bet gene in said blood sample; and e. comparing the expression levels of the IL-10 gene, the TGFβ gene, the HMG1 gene, the IL-1β gene and T-bet gene in said blood sample to known control mean expression values of each of the genes in order to diagnose and/or predict a septic syndrome based on a variation in the expression of each gene in the blood sample when compared to the corresponding known control mean expression value.