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KMID : 0351219950270030313
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Korean Journal of Infectious Diseases
1995 Volume.27 No. 3 p.313 ~ p.317
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Two Cases of Nonmenstrual Toxic Shock Syndrome with Review of the Literature
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Abstract
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Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a multisystem disease presenting with high fever, a sunburn rash that subsequently desquamated, and hypotension primarily in white young menstruating women caused by toxin producing strains of Staphylococcus aureus.
Later,
the cases of non-menstrual TSS increased relatively compared with menstrual TSS. TSS is a clinical diagnosis, the establishment of which rests upon the fulfillment of clinical criteria. The lack of specificity of the case defmition poses distinct
problems for the clinician. Therefore the incidence of TSS seems to be less than we can aware. We describe herein two cases of TSS with review of the literature; one is associated with wound in fection, the other with soft tissue infection in
left
nasal
cavity.
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