“…It is tempting, but premature, to also implicate gram-negative sepsis: this as a cause of hypoglycemia has been reported in man [19,20] but is well established only in the animal model of experimental endotoxinemia [19,[21][22], Moreover, although important in three of our patients, gram-negative rod infec tions were present in only 5 of the 15 patients considered together.…”