Epidemiology of Sepsis: Race, Sex, and Chronic Alcohol Abuse
Open Access
- 15 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 41 (Supplement) , S490-S497
- https://doi.org/10.1086/432003
Abstract
The annual incidences of severe sepsis in several industrialized nations have recently been reported to be 50–100 cases per 100,000 persons. These nuKeywords
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