Introduction

Bacteremia is the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream which normally should be a sterile space. This is not like other parts of the body like the lungs or the urine that sometimes will have Bactereia just sort of colonizing it, but not always causing clinical infection. There are essentially going to be two sources. One is that you have an infection elsewhere in the body which is reaching the blood by being significant enough or high grade enough. It really would be isolated to those organs, but if it is severe enough, it may start to spill over into the bloodstream. So that's why a urinary infection like a billiary infection or a cellulitis or anything else may, although