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Prevalence of Antibody to Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 in Burn Patients

BACKGROUND: Burn wounds lack normal barriers that protect against pathogenic bacteria, and burn patients are easily colonized and infected by Staphylococcus aureus. Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a rare but fatal disease caused by S. aureus. A lack of detectable antibodies to TSS toxin-1 (TSST-1) in...

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Autores principales: Park, Ji-Young, Kim, Jae-Seok, Woo, Heungjeong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4272971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25553286
http://dx.doi.org/10.3343/alm.2015.35.1.89