Molecular causes for life-threatening fungal infections in case of sepsis unraveled

Friday, July 27, 2012 - 14:02 in Health & Medicine

With infectious diseases, it is often not the pathogen itself, but rather an excessive inflammatory immune response (= sepsis) that contributes to the patient’s death, for instance as a result of organ damage. On intensive care units, sepsis is the second-most common cause of death worldwide. In patients with a severely compromised immune system specially, life-threatening candida fungal infections represent a high risk of sepsis.

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