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• n  invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection

• There have been marked successes, however, in the use of mercurochrome against pneumonia in children, against septicaemia, streptococcus hemolyticus and pyogenes, staphylococcus .
• The fact is, Rudolph Valentino died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) after the perforation of a gastric (stomach) ulcer.
• His physicians declared his death to be due to septicaemia (resulting evidently from the scratch of a cat), which might have overcome the most perfect physical specimen.

• blood poisoning
• septicemia

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• Derryn Hinch in NEWS.com.au
  I got blood poisoning. I got septicaemia and suddenly my kidneys didn't like it. They just shut down and I had total renal failure,Hinch said on Channel 9. "And, because I'd been sick earlier this year, for different reasons, my immune...
• John McPhee in Sydney Morning Herald
  It's a romantic story,says McPhee. "But it's more likely he died of septicaemia."