Cytokines in Severe Sepsis & Septic Shock (Progress in Inflammation Research)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: September 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9783764358778
Subjects: Clinical & Internal Medicine; Pathology; Pharmacology; Trauma & shock; Medical / Nursing; Cellular Pathology; Medical; Critical Care; Diseases - Arthritis; Diseases - Musculoskeletal; Infectious Diseases; Medical / General
First sentence: Endotoxins were suspected of being related to the pathophysiology of Gram-negative bacterial infections since the time when R. Pfeiffer and E. Centanni independently found that different species of these microorganisms contained a heat stable pyrogenic material.