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Comparative Prevalence of Superantigen Genes in Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Causing Sepsis With and Without Septic Shock
19 Aug 2005
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BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus superantigens are associated with the pathogenesis of toxic shock syndrome, but their involvement in septic shock is unknown. METHODS: We compared the distribution of 11 superantigen genes in S. aureus blood culture isolates obtained from patients with sepsis who did and did not have septic shock (19 and 61 patients, respectively), as well as from patients with suppurative...
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