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Article: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus toxic shock syndrome.(Letters)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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To the Editor: Toxic shock syndrome (TSS), which can be life threatening, is defined by clinical and laboratory evidence of fever, rash, desquamation, hypotension, and multiple organ failure caused by Staphylococcus aureus toxins. TSS caused by methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains has been found extensively in Japan (1), rarely in the United States (2), and, thus far, not in Europe.
We report a case of TSS due to an MRSA strain that produced a TSS toxin 1 (TSST-1). A 54-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency ward of Brugmann University Hospital, Brussels, with a 2-day history of myalgia, diarrhea, and vomiting. She had undergone surgery for a ...