The PubMed entry describes an article titled “The hidden infectious disease-related sepsis risk of wildfire-specific PM2.5” published in Environmental Research. The bibliographic record lists the journal citation as 2026 Sep 15;306(Pt 2):125212, with electronic publication on 2026 Jul 8. The article is indexed with PMID 42419612 and DOI 10.1016/j.envres.2026.125212. The PubMed record indicates the article is available as a free article.
The article title explicitly focuses on a potential relationship between wildfire-specific PM2.5 and infectious disease–related sepsis risk. Beyond the title and bibliographic metadata, the source content provided here does not include the abstract text or substantive study findings.
The paper lists a large, multi-institutional author group with primary contributions credited to Rahini Mahendran and multiple coauthors. Many authors are affiliated with Monash University’s Climate Air Quality Research Unit and related units within the Faculty of Medicine and School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
Other institutional affiliations reported on the PubMed page include the Menzies Institute for Medical Research (University of Tasmania), the University of Sydney, University of Otago (Wellington), University of Ottawa and Health Canada, University of Sao Paulo (pathology), University of the Andes (Chile), Mahidol University (Thailand), University of New South Wales, Queensland University of Technology, University of Western Australia, National Taiwan University, and several other academic and public health organizations.
The affiliations reflect disciplines including climate and air quality research, public health, epidemiology, pathology, environmental and occupational medicine, and translational medicine.
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