Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome because of skin infection – a case report

Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is a toxin-mediated disease. It is a severe fatal disease inducing immune-mediated inflammatory reaction and occurs because of exotoxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus. Common signs and symptoms at the time of presentation lead to misdiagnosis and delay i...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Ajay K., Jain, Nishesh, Jindal, Saurabh, Puri, Saurabh, Randhawa, Gulshan S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36352912
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_144_22
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author Gupta, Ajay K.
Jain, Nishesh
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description Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is a toxin-mediated disease. It is a severe fatal disease inducing immune-mediated inflammatory reaction and occurs because of exotoxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus. Common signs and symptoms at the time of presentation lead to misdiagnosis and delay in initiation of treatment. Prognosis depends primarily on early diagnosis and prompt treatment. This is a case of a young adult male presented with fever, rash, and hypotension and diagnosed with STSS.
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spelling pubmed-96385872022-11-08 Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome because of skin infection – a case report Gupta, Ajay K. Jain, Nishesh Jindal, Saurabh Puri, Saurabh Randhawa, Gulshan S. J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is a toxin-mediated disease. It is a severe fatal disease inducing immune-mediated inflammatory reaction and occurs because of exotoxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus. Common signs and symptoms at the time of presentation lead to misdiagnosis and delay in initiation of treatment. Prognosis depends primarily on early diagnosis and prompt treatment. This is a case of a young adult male presented with fever, rash, and hypotension and diagnosed with STSS. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-08 2022-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9638587/ /pubmed/36352912 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_144_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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