Images KoSepsis (IMAGE)

Duke University

Images KoSepsis

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Bacteria (yellow) interact with a human white blood cell in this image from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. If left unchecked, this encounter might develop into the runaway immune response to infection called sepsis, but a Duke team has now identified a chemical signal to predict which patients are most at risk of dying from sepsis.

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