Bacteremia is an inversion of the blood stream
by bacteria. It occur when microorganisms enters circulating blood through
wound or infection or surgical procedure or injection.
This
infection of the blood is asymptomatic and it’s resolved without treatment. In
some occasion fever and other types of infections are observed, and other
times it manifest as sepsis shook which life threatening.
Septicemia is a systemic disease caused by
multiplication of bacteria in circulating blood; it is also known as blood
poising and often causes severe disease.
This disease of the blood is a serious life threatening infections
that deteriorate very fast.
The condition could
be caused by infection in the lung, abdomen and urinary tract and sometimes
occur together with oestiomyletis and meningitis. Chill fever and prostrations
are some of the symptoms observed.
Bacteremia is usually a transient presence of
bacteria in the blood and maybe persistence or recurrent as a result of
infection, while septicemia is the
inversion of the blood stream by virulent microorganism.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Oestiomyletis – Inflammation of the bone marrow
and the adjacent bone.
Virulent - Ability of an organism to cause
disease.
Sepsis – Presence of puss forming organism,
their toxin or other pathogenic organism in the blood or tissue.
Prostration – Loss of strength.
Meningitis – Inflammation of the central
nervous system (brain and spinal cord).
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