References
- Centers for Disease Control. Increase in national hospital discharge survey rates for septicemia: United States, 1979–1987. MMWR 1990: 39(2): 31–4
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Selected readings
- Roth BL, Nielsen TB, McKee AE, eds. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of septic shock. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1989 (Progress in clinical and biological research, vol 286)
- Sibbald WJ, Sprung CL, eds. New horizons: perspectives on sepsis and septic shock. Fullerton, CA: Society of Critical Care Medicine, 1986