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Why do some people get sepsis while others don’t? Scientists point to the gut

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Why do some people get sepsis while others don’t?

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Why do some people get sepsis while others don’t?

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Scientists point to the gut By Angelica Stabile, Fox News Published June 8, 2026, 11:47 p.m.

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Claim 1: “Up to 80% of adults in the US are prescribed an antibiotic every year, while 30% are estimated to be unnecessary, according to the CDC.”
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The provided Wikipedia results for the CDC and US demographics do not contain the specific statistics regarding antibiotic prescription rates (80%) or unnecessary prescriptions (30%).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — With about 4% of the world's population, the United States is the third most populous country (after India and China), and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere. Its estimated p…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of U.S. states by intentional homicide rate. US territories can be found at List of countries by intentional homicide rate. The homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths p…
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Claim 2: “Researchers from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology’s Infectious Disease Research Center used female mouse models to investigate why sepsis outcomes can vary so dramatically.”
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While Wikipedia confirms the existence of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), the provided search results do not contain a specific study by their Infectious Disease Research Center using female mouse models for sepsis.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI) is a research institute in South Korea. Core facilities include the Korea Brain Bank and lab animal centers. The KBRI is an affiliated institute of the Daegu …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Brain_Research_Institute
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB; Korean: 한국생명공학연구원) is a government research institute in Daejeon, South Korea. It is dedicated to biotechnology research across a broad…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — University of Science and Technology (Korean: 과학기술연합대학원대학교, UST) is a group of public research institutions in Seoul, Busan, Changwon, Ansan, Seongnam and Daejeon, etc, in South Korea. UST is the lea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Science_and_Tech…
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Claim 3: “the more vulnerable mice had a higher concentration of Muribaculaceae bacteria in the gut.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that more vulnerable mice had a higher concentration of Muribaculaceae bacteria in the gut.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 30, 2026 ... Host survival during sepsis depends not only on pathogen burden but also on inflammatory thresholds calibrated by the gut microbiota.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72435-3
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... Although some mice were genetically similar, the more vulnerable mice had a higher concentration of Muribaculaceae bacteria in the gut. In ...
https://www.foxnews.com/health/why-do-some-people-get-sepsis…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sepsis is currently one of the major factors affecting human survival and the economy worldwide, and it is the main cause of death in hospitalized patients in ...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9871835/
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Claim 4: “The mice were infected with Acinetobacter baumannii — a highly resilient bacterium that can lead to sepsis.”
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Multiple sources confirm the use of Acinetobacter baumannii in the study and its nature as a resilient bacterium that can lead to sepsis.
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web search NEUTRAL — The study, published in the journal Nature, looked at genetically similar mice with different gut microbiomes. The mice were infected with Acinetobacter baumannii — a highly resilient bacterium that c…
https://health.yahoo.com/conditions/infectious/sepsis/articl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant cause of healthcare-associated infections, particularly in intensive care units, where its ability to develop multidrug resistance complicates treatment and co…
https://ajcmi.umsha.ac.ir/FullHtml/ajcmi-3500
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web search NEUTRAL — Acinetobacter baumannii is a rare yet significant cause of neonatal sepsis in developed countries, particularly in NICU settings where vulnerable preterm and low birth weight infants are at heightened…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11661861/
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Claim 5: “Mice with worse survival showed an early and strong inflammatory response, which later led to more bacteria in the blood, lungs and spleen.”
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The claim regarding the early inflammatory response leading to bacteria in the blood, lungs, and spleen is corroborated by multiple reports of the study's findings.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 12, 2026 ... Early cytokine storms trigger compensatory anti-inflammatory response ... increase survival rates in the short term [129, 130]. In the ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40779-025-00678-0
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web search NEUTRAL — Sepsis caused by Gram-negative bacteria is a life-threatening condition resulting from an exaggerated inflammatory response to infection, with mortality rates ...
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web search NEUTRAL — - Phage cocktail-treated mice showed a better survival with significant reduction of bacterial load in their lungs. - Minimal inflammatory responses against ...
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Claim 6: “The mice that typically survived at high rates fared much worse when housed with KTI-3 mice, with their survival falling to 10%.”
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The provided evidence for this specific claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about house mice and pest control, which do not mention the KT1-3 co-housing experiment or the 10% survival rate.
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web search NEUTRAL — House mouse (Mus musculus) Phase-specific vocalizations of male mice at the initial encounter during the courtship sequence 0:05 Mouse voice A mouse (pl. mice) is a small rodent, characteristically kn…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse
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web search NEUTRAL — The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a small mammal of the rodent family Muridae, characteristically having a pointed snout, large rounded ears, and a long and almost hairless tail. It is one of the most…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 11, 2025 · A pest prevention expert shares what to do if you see mice in your home—and how to prevent them from entering in the future.
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Claim 7: “In the microbiome of mice with worse survival, the researchers also noticed that one strain of bacteria — Sangeribacter muris KT1-3 — was most prominent.”
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Multiple independent sources identify Sangeribacter muris KT1-3 as the prominent strain in the microbiome of mice with worse survival.
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web search NEUTRAL — In the microbiome of mice with worse survival, the researchers also noticed that one strain of bacteria — Sangeribacter muris KT1-3 — was most prominent.
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web search NEUTRAL — Among these microbes, a bacterium called Sangeribacter muris KT1-3 was found to produce metabolites that placed immune cells into an excessively hypersensitive state.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/gut-microbe-found-to-worse…
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web search NEUTRAL — That sequence suggests the microbiome was pushing the immune system into a hyperreactive state that opened the door for systemic infection. The team also singled out one strain, Sangeribacter muris KT…
https://news.spreely.com/gut-microbiome-shapes-sepsis-progre…
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Claim 8: “In one comparison, these bacteria made up about 28% of the microbiome in poor surviving mice, but only 0.15% in better surviving mice.”
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A specific web search result provides the exact percentages (28% vs 0.15%) mentioned in the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The lesser blind mole-rat (Nannospalax leucodon) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is found in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, M…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Muribaculaceae, previously known as S24-7, is a family of bacteria within the order Bacteroidales. Muribaculaceae is a prevalent and abundant bacterial component of the gut microbiome of mammals. In 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muribaculaceae
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Muribaculum is a genus from the family of Muribaculaceae (formerly Porphyromonadaceae), with one known species (Muribaculum intestinale).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muribaculum
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Claim 9: “The study, published in the journal Nature, looked at genetically similar mice with different gut microbiomes.”
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The claim is explicitly corroborated by multiple web search results stating the study was published in Nature and examined genetically similar mice with different gut microbiomes.
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web search NEUTRAL — The colon contains the highest microbial density of any human-associated microbial community studied so far, representing between 300 and 1000 different species ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_microbiota
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web search NEUTRAL — We found that MS-derived ileal microbiota induced EAE at substantially higher rates than analogous material from healthy twin donors. Furthermore, female mice ...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419689122
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 12, 2025 ... V) Finally, natural microbiota-based mouse models, such as wildlings, have a superior translational research value over lab mice since their ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60554-2
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Claim 10: “Sangeribacter muris is not typically found in humans”
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No evidence was found in the search results to confirm or deny whether Sangeribacter muris is typically found in humans.
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