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The presence of viable bacteria circulating in the blood. Fever, chills, tachycardia, and tachypnea are common acute manifestations of bacteremia. The majority of cases are seen in already hospitalized patients, most of whom have underlying diseases or procedures which render their bloodstreams susceptible to invasion.
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- Bacteremias
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coord with specific bact/infect heading or specific bacterium if specific bact infect is not in MeSH (do not use /blood to indicate -emia)
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92; was see SEPTICEMIA 1975-91
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- Septicemia (1966-1991)
- specific bacterial infection (1966-1991)
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- National Library of Medicine. Bacteremia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016470. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016470
- Bacteremia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodstream_infection
- Bacteremia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650912