Which condition is best defined as a clinical syndrome involving a systemic response to infection, which is manifested by two or more of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria?

a. Bacteremia
b. Sepsis
c. Septicemia
d. Septic shock


Ans: b. Sepsis

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