Staphylococcal Scarlet Fever
- 25 October 1962
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 267 (17) , 877-878
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196210252671709
Abstract
THE unusual clinical entity of staphylococcal scarlet fever was described by Aranow and Wood1 in 1942, in a patient with staphylococcal osteomyelitis and bacteremia, in whom the typical rash and desquamation of scarlet fever developed; a soluble filtrate of the offending organism produced an erythrogenic toxin, which, on injection in Dick-positive volunteers, caused a positive reaction. A negative reaction was found in patients convalescing from staphylococcal scarlatina. The positive reaction could be prevented by the prior admixture of the toxin with scarlatina (streptococcal) antitoxin. Stevens2 had described 3 patients with scarlet fever in conjunction with staphylococcal infection in 1927, all . . .Keywords
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