Recognition and management of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> toxin‐mediated disease

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The ubiquitous human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus is capable of producing a formidable range of extracellular toxins that can have significant deleterious effects on the host. Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) results from infection or colonization with a strain of S. aureus that produces staphylococcal enterotoxin(s). The key features of TSS are widespread erythroderma occurring in association with profound...

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