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patients who are not but at first appear to be.<br />

Antimicrobial resistance is a major factor in<br />

determining clinical unresponsiveness to treatment<br />

and a rapid evolution to sepsis and septic<br />

shock. Sepsis patients with resistant pathogens<br />

have been found to have a higher risk of hospital<br />

mortality.<br />

Septic shock is defined as a sub-type of severe<br />

sepsis with lactate greater than or equal to<br />

4 mmol/L or hypotension (i.e., mean arterial<br />

pressure (MAP)

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