Title

Infectious Disease Emergencies: Part 2, Septic And Nonseptic Febrile Syndromes

Keywords

Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome; Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome

Abstract

The diagnosis of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is largely clinical because Staphylococcus aureus is rarely recovered from blood cultures. Patients with staphylococcal TSS have fever, hypotension (initially presenting as orthostatic dizziness or syncope), and skin manifestations (diffuse erythroderma, pruritic maculopapular rash, and desquamation). Symptoms or history of present illness that are more suggestive of streptococcal TSS than of staphylococcal TSS include recent trauma, severe pain, and physical findings of soft tissue infections (ie, localized swelling and erythema, followed by ecchymosis and sloughing of skin). Another distinguishing feature of streptococcal TSS is that Streptococcus pyogenes is readily recovered from. © 1996 - 2010 UBM Medica LLC, a Privacy Statement - Terms of Service - Advertising Information.

Publication Date

12-1-2010

Publication Title

Consultant

Volume

50

Issue

12

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

79954461432 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79954461432

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