Management of Sepsis
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pus was available for culture.) The results in Bristol further supported a impression that the phage type of the staphylococcus was related to the severity 01 infection. Thus the troublesome Phage Type 80 Staphylococcus which was n isolated in 1953 by Rountree and Freeman (1955) in Australia3 has enhanced virulen. and so infection with it leads to sloughs and tissue damage with considerable toxaetf1 t 0S A little boy was admitted with a partial-thickness burn of about twenty per cent^
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