Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 7, Issue 4 , Pages 247-252 , July 2009

Severe sepsis and septic shock at the Hajj: Etiologies and outcomes

  • Salim Baharoon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Critical Care & Internal Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426, Saudi Arabia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +966 1 252088x18860; fax: +966 1 252088x1880.
    • ,
  • Hamdan Al-Jahdali

      Affiliations

    • Department of Critical Care & Internal Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426, Saudi Arabia
    • ,
  • Jamal Al Hashmi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Critical Care, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
    • ,
  • Ziad A. Memish

      Affiliations

    • Infection Prevention and Control Program, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • ,
  • Qanta A. Ahmed

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Received 26 July 2008 ,Accepted 8 September 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2008.09.002

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 7, Issue 4 , Pages 247-252 , July 2009

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