septicaemia

The presence in the circulating blood of large numbers of disease-producing organisms. Septicaemia causes high fever, shivering, headache and rapid breathing and may progress to delirium, coma and death. Treatment is with antibiotics and sometimes transfusion. Also known as blood poisoning. See also SEPTIC SHOCK.

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septicaemia

blood poisoning

an infection of the blood stream by a variety of pathogenic microorganisms, such as Salmonella and Pseudomonas, usually from a nonintestinal source, leading to fever, lesions in many body organs and even death.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

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