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Keywords: Adjudication; Aged; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Blood; Blood - microbiology; Critical Illness; Diagnosis; Female; Humans; Infections; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical Microbiology; Microorganisms; Middle Aged; Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods; Multiplexing; Original; Original Article; Pathogens; Polymerase chain reaction; Predictive Value of Tests; Prospective Studies; Real time; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods; Sepsis; Sepsis - diagnosis; Pathogen detection; Sepsis; Intensive care; Diagnostic research; Multiplex real-time PCR