septic infection

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This condition can lead to septic infection, which in turn can lead to lethal organ failure.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2022

Two weeks and a septic infection later, he stepped out into the dry plains air exhausted.

From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2018

Frail and exhausted, he was just out of the hospital where a septic infection had nearly killed him.

From Los Angeles Times

Wounds of non-vascular bodies such as these are always slow to heal, and, by reason of their slowness, invite septic infection.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

Another likewise unfrequent but most dangerous accident is the septic infection of the abscess—an occurrence referred to by Olshausen to the diffusion of intestinal gases through the walls of the tumor.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various