In Germany, sepsis, which causes more than 160 deaths each day , takes more lives than diseases such as lung cancer, breast cancer and bowel cancer combined. This trend is also being observed in other western countries.

Sepsis continues to be one of the biggest, though most underrepresented, worries of modern medicine. Approximately 50% of patients with severe sepsis die, despite the deployment of state-of-the-art, intensive care medicine.
 

Background Information

• Sepsis - the underestimated killer
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• Diagnosing sepsis: when every hour counts
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Available images for: Sepsis - a leading cause of death

Aspergillus fumigatus
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Streptococcus pneumoniae
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LightCycler SeptiFast Kit
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Video

• The first automated System for PCR testing
   

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