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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