10 Bacterial Infection Symptoms
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Pain or Discomfort
A person with a bacterial infection is likely to notice pain or discomfort in the location of the infection, due to increased inflammation. For example, a sinus infection may cause a headache, a bacterial joint infection may result in pain in the affected joint and bacterial pneumonia may cause chest pain.
A bacterial infection may also cause more generalized discomfort, with the person experiencing aches and pains throughout the body. The pain commonly occurs along with fever and chills.1‘Bacterial Infections.’ Sepsis Alliance, 12 Jan. 2021, www.sepsis.org/sepsisand/bacterial-infections
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