Thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report

A 5 year old girl with thoracic empyema developed a scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation. Cultures from blood, throat, and pleural fluid all grew Streptococcus pyogenes, a common etiologic agent of pediatric thoracic empyema. The presence of a scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation in chil...

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Autores principales: Baird, John Scott, Sediva, Ivona
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9384
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description A 5 year old girl with thoracic empyema developed a scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation. Cultures from blood, throat, and pleural fluid all grew Streptococcus pyogenes, a common etiologic agent of pediatric thoracic empyema. The presence of a scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation in children with a thoracic empyema may help identify the causative organism.
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spelling pubmed-28040202010-01-10 Thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report Baird, John Scott Sediva, Ivona Cases J Case Report A 5 year old girl with thoracic empyema developed a scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation. Cultures from blood, throat, and pleural fluid all grew Streptococcus pyogenes, a common etiologic agent of pediatric thoracic empyema. The presence of a scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation in children with a thoracic empyema may help identify the causative organism. BioMed Central 2009-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2804020/ /pubmed/20062551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9384 Text en Copyright ©2009 Baird and Sediva; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report
title Thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report
title_full Thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report
title_fullStr Thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report
title_short Thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report
title_sort thoracic empyema with scarlatiniform rash and acral desquamation: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9384
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