Unrevealing culture-negative severe sepsis.
Sepsis involves a wide array of sources and microorganisms, only a fraction of which are microbiologically documented. Culture-negative sepsis poses special diagnostic challenges to both clinicians and microbiologists and further questions the validity of sepsis definitions.
Nicolas
N
de Prost
Keyvan
K
Razazi
Christian
C
Brun-Buisson
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology