Disclosed is a method for acquiring information on respiratory infection, the method including measuring at least one biomarker in a specimen collected from a subject suffering from respiratory infection, or from a subject suspected of having the respiratory infection, in which the biomarker includes at least one selected from the group consisting of CXCL9, CCL3, and IL-18, and a measured value of the biomarker can serve as an index of a risk of causing acute kidney injury or pulmonary fibrosis following respiratory infection.