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[Classification of septicemias. A clinical and pathogenic approach]
1Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
Abstract:
Classic sepsis is characterized by the presence of bacteria in blood originating from a primary infection site with secondary location at other sites. Some infectious diseases like typhoid and paratyphoid fever, brucellosis an others share this pathogenetic mechanism but have a characteristic clinical course and usually a good prognosis. After analyzing the differences between the 2 types the author proposes the terms "non specific" and "specific" for each type of sepsis, respectively. The differences between the 2, the organism involved and different reaction of the host in types, may be related to different pathogenetic effects of each case.
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