The Role of Gram Staining in Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome

Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) is a severe blistering disease common in children. The diagnosis of SSSS is often difficult to distinguish from other blistering diseases in children. Here, we report a case of SSSS with a particular diagnostic step to elucidate the disease, which is the G...

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Autores principales: Morgenstern-Kaplan, Dan, Fonseca-Portilla, Rodrigo, Konstat-Korzenny, Enrique, Cohen-Welch, Ariel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7213654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32399357
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7624
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author Morgenstern-Kaplan, Dan
Fonseca-Portilla, Rodrigo
Konstat-Korzenny, Enrique
Cohen-Welch, Ariel
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description Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) is a severe blistering disease common in children. The diagnosis of SSSS is often difficult to distinguish from other blistering diseases in children. Here, we report a case of SSSS with a particular diagnostic step to elucidate the disease, which is the Gram stain. We propose the use of the Gram stain as a cost-effective diagnostic step in SSSS to shorten the time from presentation to treatment, especially in resource-limited areas.
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spelling pubmed-72136542020-05-12 The Role of Gram Staining in Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome Morgenstern-Kaplan, Dan Fonseca-Portilla, Rodrigo Konstat-Korzenny, Enrique Cohen-Welch, Ariel Cureus Dermatology Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) is a severe blistering disease common in children. The diagnosis of SSSS is often difficult to distinguish from other blistering diseases in children. Here, we report a case of SSSS with a particular diagnostic step to elucidate the disease, which is the Gram stain. We propose the use of the Gram stain as a cost-effective diagnostic step in SSSS to shorten the time from presentation to treatment, especially in resource-limited areas. Cureus 2020-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7213654/ /pubmed/32399357 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7624 Text en Copyright © 2020, Morgenstern-Kaplan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7213654/
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