One might perhaps refer to this as the 'rotten core' as opposed to the 'septic fringe'!
Severe sepsis and septic shock : defining the clinical problem.
The septic fringe of the city, being inadequately administered, usually offers very poor accommodation, if any, to the newcomer.
It is also possible that septic or sewage treatment systems are probable environmental sources of giardia cyst contamination.
Sewage was collected in a two-chamber septic tank located 50 m from the well.
Septic shock as a predictor of mortality in bacteremia caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci.
Polymicrobial bacteraemia was defined as the isolation of different species in one or more blood cultures with clinical evidence of the same primary septic focus.
Good systems included either the municipal sewer or a septic tank with leach field, and poor systems included cesspools and portables.
