Shock syndrome
Prevalence of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 Producing Staphylococcus aureus and the Presence of Antibodies to This Superantigen in Menstruating Women
... toxic shock syndrome (mTSS) is thought to be associated with colonization with toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1)-producing Staphylococcus aureus in women with insufficient antibody ...
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Successful treatment of out of hospital cardiopulmonary arrest due to streptococcal toxic shock syndrome – effectiveness of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and the rapid antigen group A streptococcus test: a case report
... toxic shock syndrome (STSS) caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a group A streptococcus (GAS), infection is an uncommon but serious illness that rapidly progresses to multiple organ failure, shock, and ...
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Recognition of a Kawasaki Disease Shock Syndrome
... without shock, pa- tients with Kawasaki disease shock syndrome were more often female and had larger proportions of bands, higher C-reactive protein concentrations, and lower hemoglo- bin ...
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Assessment of risk factor for death in dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome
... This is to certify that the dissertation titled “ASSESSMENT OF RISK FACTOR FOR DEATH IN DENGUE HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER & DENGUE SHOCK SYNDROME” submitted by Dr.K.Senthil Kumar to the Faculty of pediatrics, ...
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Kawasaki Shock Syndrome Complicating a Recurrence of Kawasaki Disease
... We describe a case of recurrent Kawasaki disease (KD) in a non-Asian 6-year-old boy who had been diagnosed with typical KD without cardiac involvement at age 3 years. He was admitted to the PICU 3 years later for heart ...
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A Family Cluster of Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome in Children: Clinical Implication and Epidemiological Investigation
... We describe a family cluster of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) in- volving 3 children and present the results of an epidemi- ologic investigation.. Patients and Methods.[r] ...
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Clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion caused by methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia with toxic shock syndrome: a case report
... days 8, 4, and 8, respectively. Soon erythema developed, and desquamation occurred 2 weeks after disease onset. In addition, isolated MSSA strains produced toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1). Although ...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Shock Syndrome-on-a-Chip
... hemorrhagic shock syndrome has been ...hemorrhagic syndrome and demonstrate its usefulness by exploring the signaling and physical processes that underlie the hem- orrhagic syndrome and by ...
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Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome in the intensive care unit
... septic shock, and empiric antibiotic therapy was initiated with piperacillin/tazobactam plus ...toxic shock syndrome due to group A streptococcus with sep- tic oligoarthritis, most probably ...
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RS3PE syndrome developing during the course of probable toxic shock syndrome: a case report
... toxic shock syndrome ...RS3PE syndrome, for which he satisfied all four diagnostic criteria: 1) pitting edema in the limbs, 2) acute onset, 3) age ≥ 50 years, and 4) rheumatoid factor ...RS3PE ...
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Surviving streptococcal toxic shock syndrome: a case report
... toxic shock syndrome and associated myositis caused by group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus pyogenes generally have a poor outcome despite aggressive operative ...toxic shock syndrome due to ...
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Toxic Shock Syndrome— Scientific Uncertainty and the Public Media
... Todd J, Fishaut M, Kapral F, et al: Toxic shock syndrome associated with phage group I staphylococci. Davis JP, Chesney PJ, Wand PJ, et al: Toxic shock syn- drome: Epidemiologic features[r] ...
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Immunoblots for detection of toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 produced by Staphylococcus aureus
... Colony immunoblot assay for the detection of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 TSST-1 with anti-TSST-1 Fab'2 fragments.. Rapid screening assay for toxic shock syndrome toxin pr[r] ...
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Corticosteroids in the treatment of dengue shock syndrome
... “shock syndrome” are poorly ...of shock, prevention of serious complications, or increasing platelet ...severe shock have shown possible ...
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Toxic Shock Syndrome in Children Aged 10 Years or Less
... Toxic shock syndrome in these children was similar to published descriptions of toxic shock syn- drome in series of adult patients, except that, as a group, the children had a greater in[r] ...
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Rapid Regulatory and Effector Immune Responses in Toxic Shock Syndrome
... SAgs to human leukocyte antigens (HLAs)-DQ and -DR, these transgenic mice respond to much lower doses of SAg (216-219). Accordingly, our lab has previously demonstrated robust cytokine responses in HLA-DR4tg mice ...
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Probable Toxic Shock Syndrome Without Shock and Multisystem Involvement
... Three menstruating adolescents using tam- pons colonized with Staphylococcus aureus developed high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain fol-.. lowed by conjunctival injection an[r] ...
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Failure of Hydrocortisone to Affect Outcome in Dengue Shock Syndrome
... We believe that the administration of hydrocorti- sone in a single large dose is an adequate test of the efficacy of steroids because 91 of the children in this series responded to treat[r] ...
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Toxin Profiling of Staphylococcus aureus Strains Involved in Varicella Superinfection
... A major finding in this study is the high frequency of mecA, the gene conferring methicillin resistance: 19 (33%) of the 58 S. aureus isolates were mecA positive. In Europe, MRSA strains account for less than 5% of ...
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Cardiac involvement in adult patients with febrile thrombocytopenia diagnosed by bedside 2-D echocardiography
... Results: Out of 200 patients there were 146 males and 56 females. The mean age was 24.12yrs in males 28.32yrs in females .Rhythm abnormalities were present in 60 patients and the most common abnormality was sinus ...
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