From San Francisco, at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
When a blood infection causes an inflammatory reaction that attacks the entire circulatory system, the result is a condition called sepsis that’s fatal about 40 percent of the time. A new study suggests that sepsis brought on by a fungal infection is less lethal in people taking cholesterol-lowering pills called statins than in those not getting the drugs.
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