Word: bacteremia
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...It’s very difficult to detect,” she said. “Someone can have bacteremia (bacteria in the blood) but then you have to do further tests...
...same antibiotic- resistant strain of pneumococcus. Subsequent throat swabs revealed that 50 of the 250 children enrolled at the center had been infected but had not yet shown symptoms. Such outbreaks could have serious consequences: recurrent middle-ear infections can impair hearing, and pneumococcus can also cause meningitis and bacteremia, an infection of the blood that may spread to the joints, heart and even the brain. In the Third World, pneumococcus is a leading cause of pneumonia...
...Bacteremia (bloodstream infections). Of 91 cases, 61 recovered or improved...
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