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

  • Not long after Eugenio Pacelli was born, Leo XIII looked beyond the Vatican and saw European civilization sick in body from social septicemia and sick at heart from the standing .
  • Present average costs of penicillin treatments: $35 for severe septicemia (1,000,000 units), $5 for gonorrhea (150,000 units).
  • Of 27 irradiated cases of septicemia (bloodstream infection), said he, 22 recovered; 71 irradiated cases of other bloodstream infections, including peritonitis and septic .
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  • Lancaster referee, amputee dies
    Lancaster referee Matt Perillo, died on Thursday. Details of his death are unknown; Perillo lost both of his feet to an infection called Septicemia last January.
    June 9, 2013 - WIVB Buffalo
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  • St Jerome in Medical News Today (press release)
    We have shown that it is possible to customize antibiotic treatment duration in patients with septicemia based on a reliable and robust blood test,says Jerome Pugin, MD, of the Intensive Care Unit at the University Hospital in Geneva,...
  • Jerry Reinsdorf in MLB.com
    My sister-in-law was pregnant with her third child and the family couldn't cope. I will never forget how she was rushed to hospital with septicemia after a home abortion. She needed a blood transfusion, and we were warming the bottles of blood and... Gib Mihăescu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gib_Mih%C4%83escu&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFWwkA395BqpsCd_0IB7TPDx8BhDA International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/28/europe/EU-GEN-Romania-Abortion-Under-Communism.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGC96tYWSwFfB0JZjw_5P0mX99S_w May 28, 2007 88295 117776 septuagenarian People ask me, 'Why do you keep doing this?' I'm a septuagenarian now," said Reinsdorf, who celebrated a birthday Wednesday. "But I just love being around everybody, not just Kenny and Ozzie."

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