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. 2025 Jan 24;29(1):44.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-025-05267-0.

Pulmonary pathology in culture-negative sepsis: a potential confounder for sepsis treatment and research

Brett Biebelberg  1   2
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Pulmonary pathology in culture-negative sepsis: a potential confounder for sepsis treatment and research

Brett Biebelberg. Crit Care. .
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Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests. Author information: BB is a sepsis researcher and has previously published on related topics including the heterogeneity of sepsis and differences in sepsis with or without positive cultures

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