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- syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons
How To Use toxic shock syndrome In A Sentence
- In California a three-person outbreak of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome occurred in patients in a hospital.
- The bacteria that causes toxic shock syndrome can be carried on unwashed hands and prompt an infection anywhere on the body.
- What Are the Symptoms of Toxic Shock Syndrome?
- She died from the rare bacterial infection toxic shock syndrome. The Sun
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- Toxic shock syndrome can present with hypotension, erythema, fever and multisystem dysfunction.
- She died from the rare bacterial infection toxic shock syndrome. The Sun
- Alarmingly, since the 1980s S. pyogenes has been identified to be globally responsible for a class of emerging, life threatening, invasive infections including the "flesh-eating" disease, necrotizing fasciitis, septicemia, and the excretion of the pyrogenic exotoxin-associated toxic shock syndrome PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include high fever, a rash, vomiting and low blood pressure.
- Objective In order to isolate and purify an exotoxin of Streptococcus mitis which can cause toxic shock syndrome and investigate its pathogenicity.
