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n. - Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection.

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  • Meningococcal septicaemia occurs when poisons caused by meningococcal bacteria enter the blood stream;
  • Meningococcal septicaemia occurs when poisons caused by the meningococcal bacteria enter the blood stream.
  • -- There are a few diseases, such as septicaemia, limber neck and infectious enteritis, that are sometimes mistaken for fowl cholera.
  • At the third, like the lady above, he got septicaemia.
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