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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20214| Title: | Septicaemia |
| Authors: | Bahadur, Shar |
| Keywords: | Septicemia -- Diagnosis Septicemia -- Treatment Septicemia -- Pathophysiology Pyemia |
| Issue Date: | 1986-03 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta Medical School |
| Citation: | Bahadur, S. (1986). Septicaemia. Medi-Scope, 8, 24-25. |
| Abstract: | The presence of bacteria in the blood causes bacteraemia, septicaemia and pyaemia. In bacteraemia, bacteria are present in the blood in relatively small numbers, but do not multiply significantly, while in septicaemia and pyaemia bacteria of high pathogenicity are present and also multiply in the blood. Bacteraemia subsides by itself when the resistance of the patient is more powerful than the causative organism. But sometimes the bacteria may settle in the various parts of the body and produce lesions e.g.: suppurative meningitis, suppurative arthritis and osteomyelitis. Septicaemia is the presence and multiplication of bacteria, in the blood, of high pathogenicity causing symptoms e.g. pyogenic cocci, with profound toxaemia in which the bacteria have overwhelmed the host defence. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20214 |
| Appears in Collections: | Medi-Scope, Issue 8 Medi-Scope, Issue 8 |
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| Mediscope 08 - A6.pdf | 1.2 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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