Toxin involvement in staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1369-1373

  Lina, Gerard ^a   Gillet, Yves ^b   Vandenesch, François ^b   Jones, Mark E ^b   Floret, Daniel ^b   Etienne, Jerome ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; EXFOLIATIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPETIGO BULLOSA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCARLET FEVER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

EID: 0031465699     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516129     Document Type: Article

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