The stressed host response to infection: the disruptive signals and rhythms of systemic inflammation.

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The cognate signals from sterile or pathogen-induced sources converge on the same recognition or response pathways. In the surgical patient, a systemic response to infection most often occurs in the context of ongoing inflammatory stress. Such an inflammatory response is modulated initially by the magnitude of injury and by patient-specific (endogenous) factors, such as confounding illness, age, and genetic...

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