Sepsis, Drs. Tracey and Deutschman wrote, «is not a stereotypical, steadily progressive immunological process that follows infection or injury; that innate and
adaptive immune responses do not inevitably damage host cells; and that the long - held notion that sepsis is a distinct immunological disorder is incorrect.
He teamed with Dr. Janeway in the search for the gene in the innate
immune system that activates the
adaptive system — to address the questions, how
does the human body know when it has an infection, and how
does a microbial infection trigger an
immune response?