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Many infections, including bacterial, fungal and viral infections can lead to sepsis and septic shock.
The new M1UK strain of strep A has a dangerous ability to make the disease trigger more toxin release in the body.
An overactive immune response to infection can be deadly. Studying how one key player called tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, induces lethal immune responses could provide new treatment targets.
While sepsis is considered to be a preventable cause of maternal death, it continues to be a major cause of women dying during or after childbirth, even in Australia.
Sepsis onset can be difficult to recognize, in part because its symptoms can mimic those of many other conditions. A treatment delay of even a few hours can make the difference between life and death.
Albert Alexander was the first known person treated with penicillin. While his ultimately fatal case is well known in medical histories, the cause of his illness has been misattributed for decades.
Healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to laboratory diagnostics and often have to guess which antibiotics to use for presumed infections.
With an ageing population, and the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, now is the time to be worried about sepsis.
A surprising number of people are catching pneumonia or urinary tract infections in hospital, a new Australian study shows for the first time.
Sepsis can maim or kill within hours. Here’s how to identify the condition.
No mother wants their baby to develop jaundice, but it turns out that they should probably be grateful.
Former President George H.W. Bush was hospitalized for sepsis, which can be serious. Just what is this disease that accounts for one-third of all hospital deaths? A speed read explains the dangers.
Antimicrobial stewardship is proving effective, but we’re not fully across what is happening.
Without leading edge innovations and coordination, Canadians will die from the epidemic of antibiotic resistant infections.
It’s possible – but rare – for a lick from the family pup to transmit bacteria that can cause dangerous blood poisoning.
Boxer Muhammad Ali died of septic shock, after being admitted to the hospital for a respiratory problem. Despite the fact more than a million people are hospitalized with sepsis each year, fewer than half of Americans know what the word sepsis means.
Even though sepsis is growing more common, doctors still have trouble diagnosing it.
Sepsis claims the lives of 8m people worldwide each year. It is the leading cause of hospital deaths in the US, a major threat to soldiers wounded in battle and a killer of children, particularly in under-resourced…
Peptide molecules that are derived from the body’s own immune system can help fight against blood poisoning. Blood poisoning…
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Associate Professor, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Founding Director of the Wyss Institute, Harvard University
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Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Nursing and Health Services Research, Avondale College of Higher Education
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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