Immunosuppression and Secondary Infection in Sepsis: Part, Not All, of the Story

JAMA. 2016 Apr 12;315(14):1457-9. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.2762.

Authors

Derek C Angus¹, Steven Opal²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania2Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute illness (CRISMA) Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania3Associate Editor, JAMA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island.

PMID: 26975243
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.2762

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Publication types

Editorial
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MeSH terms

Cross Infection / epidemiology*
Female
Hospital Mortality*
Humans
Male
Sepsis / complications*