Microbiology of toxic shock syndrome: overview.

doi:10.1093/clinids/11.supplement_1.s55

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Microbiology of toxic shock syndrome: overview.

Reviews of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000

See R H, Chow A W

Abstract excerpt

The discovery of TSST-1 production by TSS-associated strains of S. aureus provided the first major breakthrough in the understanding of the pathogenesis of TSS. Soon, associations between TSST-1 production and other phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of S. aureus became apparent. In the end...

Topics

Bacterial Toxins
Enterotoxins
Genotype
Humans
Phenotype
Shock, Septic
Staphylococcus aureus
Superantigens

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