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It is a systemic infection, often fatal, caused by a generalized action of bacteria or their products, e.g. toxins, that have entered the blood.
Virtually all known bacteria can cause sepsis. Often the starting point can be the so-called primary focus of infection. It can be, for example, cholecystitis, urinary tract infection, skin abscess or, for example, inflammation of the navel in a newborn, from which bacteria in the blood have been transferred to distant human organs or tissues, thus spreading the inflammatory process.
The type of infectious organism is often related to a risk factor and the site of infection origin. For example, the sources of bloodstream infection with staphylococcus aureus are purulent lesions on the skin and soft tissues, pneumonia, and catheters placed in blood vessels. Bloodstream infections with faecal streptococci originate from urinary, digestive and abdominal infections, while pneumococcal sepsis originates mainly from pneumonia. Meningococcal meningitis in children is often accompanied by systemic infection of the same cause. Abdominal infections, pneumonia and urinary tract infections are the most common starting points for systemic infections.
Treatment: hospital.
Prognosis: serious.
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