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Overview
The hospitalization rate of those with a principal diagnosis of septicemia or sepsis more than doubled from 2000 through 2008. Reasons for these increases may include an aging population with more chronic illnesses; greater use of invasive procedures, immunosuppressive drugs, chemotherapy, and transplantation; and increasing microbial resistance to antibiotics [1]. Other patients population at increased risks are ICU admits, immunocompromised, bacteremic, with community acquired pneumonia and with genetic predisposition.
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References
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