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bacterial infection

  1. An infection caused by bacteria . The growth of many disease-causing bacteria can be halted by the use of antibiotics . ( Compare viral infection .)


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Notes

Diseases caused by bacterial infections include diphtheria , gonorrhea , tuberculosis , and typhoid fever .
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A bacterial infection in the same leg was eating away at the bone marrow.

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She arrived at Northampton General on 14 April 2023 needing treatment for cellulitis, a bacterial infection affecting the skin, which can be serious.

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Lyme disease, a bacterial infection which causes a range of health problems, can be spread to humans from some tick bites.

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Of the top reasons koalas are brought into wildlife hospitals – vehicle strikes, pet attacks and chlamydia – the bacterial infection is the biggest and deadliest.

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Melioidosis -- a bacterial infection that causes fever, pneumonia, and sepsis -- presents two enormous challenges for infectious disease experts: it kills roughly half the people who contract it and it is extremely tough to treat even in countries with advanced health care systems.

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