Unrevealing culture-negative severe sepsis

Crit Care. 2013 Sep 26;17(5):1001. doi: 10.1186/cc13022.

Abstract

Sepsis involves a wide array of sources and microorganisms, only a fraction of which are microbiologically documented. Culture-negative sepsis poses special diagnostic challenges to both clinicians and microbiologists and further questions the validity of sepsis definitions.

Publication types

  • Review
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Gram-Negative Bacteria / isolation & purification*
  • Gram-Positive Bacteria / isolation & purification*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Sepsis / diagnosis*
  • Sepsis / microbiology*