Decoding Sepsis Globally: Toward Precision Medicine through Clustering in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aleksandra Leligdowicz^{1

2}, W Joost Wiersinga³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine Schulich School of Dentistry and Medicine.
² Robarts Research Institute Western University London, Ontario, Canada.
³ Center for Infection and Molecular Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine Amsterdam UMC University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Editorial

Aleksandra Leligdowicz et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Mar.

. 2025 Mar;211(3):307-309.

doi: 10.1164/rccm.202411-2331ED.

Aleksandra Leligdowicz^{1

2}, W Joost Wiersinga³

¹ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine Schulich School of Dentistry and Medicine.
² Robarts Research Institute Western University London, Ontario, Canada.
³ Center for Infection and Molecular Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine Amsterdam UMC University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Unsupervised Classification of the Host Response Identifies Dominant Pathobiological Signatures of Sepsis in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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