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Localized infection

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Localized infection
An infection that is limited to a specific part of the body and has local symptoms.


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Severe sepsis exists along a continuum initiated by a localized infection that triggers a systemic response.
The gram-negative bacillus Yersinia pestis causes 2 principal forms of illness in humans, a localized infection of lymph nodes (bubonic plague) and a highly lethal septicemia that is a particularly fulminant form of septic shock (19).
The otorrhea is believed to be linked to an associated localized infection, usually a Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.
 
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