Acute Coxiella burnetii infection presenting as sepsis with multisystem involvement in an immunosuppressed patient: a case report

• by Yaozong Xia, Lin Fu, Xiu Cao, Xuxiang Zheng, Bin Nie

• August 24, 2026

Does High PCT Warrant Longer Therapy?

In a planned BALANCE analysis, elevated day 7 procalcitonin was associated with higher mortality, but the small subgroup analysis found no evidence that extending antibiotics from 7 to 14 days improved outcomes.

• by Andrea Surnit

• July 15, 2026

• 4 min

Complement receptor 2 downregulation is associated with mortality in Staphylococcus aureus sepsis in both mice and humans

• by Pradeep Kumar Kopparapu, Meghshree Deshmukh, Santhilal Subhash, Majd Mohammad, Zhicheng Hu, Anders Jarneborn, Muhammad Arif, Marcela Pekna, Lars Ljungström, Gunnar Jacobsson, Ola Grimsholm, Tao Jin

• July 9, 2026

Machine Learning–Augmented Traditional Analysis of Lactate vs Lactate-to-Albumin Ratio for Predicting Mortality Risk in Patients With Sepsis: Large-Scale Retrospective Study

• by Xiaodi Wang, Yi Xu, Weijun Xiao, Peng Dou, Yunxia Huang, Muhan Cao, Liang Luo, Qinghua Hou

• July 16, 2026