The epidemiology of bacterial sepsis.
As a result of better understanding of pathogenesis, new definitions of sepsis have been proposed, and the complexity of this syndrome is clearer. Population-based studies of bloodstream infections--what now is called sepsis--have helped us to understand the natural history of this very frequent problem. The mortality and morbidity of each of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome stages have been described; our ability to better understand and predict these stages will help us to make better therapeutic decisions.
Rangel-Frausto
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Hospital Epidemiology Research Unit, National Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.
D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D018746:Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology