Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a rare, life-threatening, acute multisystem disorder caused by exotoxin-producing streptococcal or staphylococcal bacteria. It is often characterised by pyrexia, diffuse erythroderma, malaise, confusion, and hypotension which may progress to multiorgan dysfunction and coma...
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-secreting Staphylococcus aureus in Kawasaki syndrome (1991) Detection of genes for enterotoxins, exfoliative toxins, and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 in Staphylococcus aureus by the polymerase chain reaction... Nigel Curtis and Barbara Chan and Michael Levin and Atsushi Nis...
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