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- noun Plural form of
septicemia .
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The unequivocal successes include military tuberculosis, tertiary syphilis of the brain and heart, poliomyelitis, the childhood contagions, septicemias, typhoid, rheumatic fever, and valvular heart disease, and most of the other great infectious diseases, now largely under control or already conquered.
What Doctors Don't Know Thomas, Lewis 1987
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In Thailand, the disease accounts for 20% of all community-acquired septicemias and the most common cause of the high mortality is septic shock
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chakrit Sawasdidoln et al. 2010
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