Noting the lack of awareness regarding sepsis, particularly affecting newborns and pregnant women, doctors and health experts have concurred that the growing incidence of this potentially life-threatening condition may kill more people by 2050 than cancer and heart attacks.
Sepsis is a syndromic response to infection and is frequently a final common pathway to death from many infectious diseases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Prof Vikas Gautam, department of medical microbiology (PGIMER) and Dr Prabhu Patil, principal scientist, (CSIR-IMTECH) have discovered a new species of a bacterium that causes serious infections, especially in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
It was revealed in the research that the ICU mortality went as high as 38 per cent, while it was recorded highest, at 42 per cent among the 18-50 years age group.
