Abstract: A kit for in vitro measurement of a at least one IL7R gene transcript in a blood sample, including specific reagents for measuring the transcript, and a control sample calibrated to contain the IL7R gene transcript corresponding to the mean quantity measured in a pool of reference blood samples from human patients in a state of septic shock when reference blood samples are taken, or who were in a state of septic shock within 72 h after taking the reference blood samples, and who were known to have survived, and/or a calibrated to contain the quantity of an IL7R gene transcript corresponding to the mean quantity measured in reference blood samples from patients in a state of septic shock when the reference blood samples are taken, or who were in a state of septic shock within 72 h after taking the reference blood samples, and not to have survived.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of in vitro or ex vivo evaluation of the risk of complications in a patient who has sustained an insult or an infection generating a systemic inflammatory response syndrome, the method being characterized in that it comprises the step of detecting, in a biological sample obtained from said patient, at least one transcript of the IL7R gene, as well as measuring, in vitro or ex vivo, the quantity of at least one transcript of the IL7R gene, in a biological sample from a patient who has sustained an insult or an infection generating a systemic inflammatory response syndrome, in order to evaluate the risk of complications, and in particular of mortality, in said patient. The invention also concerns kits for measuring, in vitro or ex vivo, the quantity of at least one transcript of the IL7R gene in a biological sample.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of in vitro or ex vivo evaluation of the risk of complications in a patient who has sustained an insult or an infection generating a systemic inflammatory response syndrome, the method being characterized in that it comprises the step of detecting, in a biological sample obtained from said patient, at least one transcript of the IL7R gene, as well as measuring, in vitro or ex vivo, the quantity of at least one transcript of the IL7R gene, in a biological sample from a patient who has sustained an insult or an infection generating a systemic inflammatory response syndrome, in order to evaluate the risk of complications, and in particular of mortality, in said patient. The invention also concerns kits for measuring, in vitro or ex vivo, the quantity of at least one transcript of the IL7R gene in a biological sample.

Abstract: A method of chemical and/or biological analysis including: providing a container delimited by a wall including an inner surface on which there is deposited an active component intended to make possible a chemical and/or biological reaction with a solution disposed in the container; filling the container with a liquid solution containing an analyte which is to be detected; and in applying to the liquid a succession of movements of aspirating/discharging a volume in the container at a suitable frequency to bring about resonance of the liquid so as to deform the free surface thereof and to result in a preferential distribution of the fluid along the inner surface of the wall of the container.