Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome in an Adult

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THE term "staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome" has been proposed to cover a spectrum of clinical lesions including toxic epidermal necrolysis, bullous impetigo, and generalized scarlatiniform eruption.1 This syndrome may be reproduced in newborn mice by the injection of either live staphylococci2 of phage Group II or exfoliative toxin.2 , 3 In that model, exfoliation occurred only in animals under six days of age. The case presented below is unusual in that this syndrome occurred in a 19-year-old man from whom staphylococci of phage Group II, capable of producing exfoliative toxin, were isolated.Case ReportA 19-year-old man had chronic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis diagnosed 4 . . .

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