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Comment
. 2013 Sep 26;17(5):1001.
doi: 10.1186/cc13022.

Unrevealing culture-negative severe sepsis

Nicolas de Prost, Keyvan Razazi, Christian Brun-Buisson
Comment

Unrevealing culture-negative severe sepsis

Nicolas de Prost et al. Crit Care. .

Abstract

Sepsis involves a wide array of sources and microorganisms, only a fraction of which are microbiologically documented. Culture-negative sepsis poses special diagnostic challenges to both clinicians and microbiologists and further questions the validity of sepsis definitions.

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