Clinical features of neonatal toxic shock syndrome-like exanthematous disease emerging in Japan

Journal of Infection

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 194-200

  Takahashi, Naoto ^a,b   Uehara, Ritei ^a   Nishida, Hiroshi ^b   Sakuma, Izumi ^b   Yamasaki, Chika ^b   Takahashi, Kayo ^a   Honma, Yoko ^a   Momoi, Mariko Y ^a   Uchiyama, Takehiko ^b  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neonate; NTED; Superantigen; TSS; TSST 1

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME LIKE EXANTHEMATOUS DISEASE; TRACHEA STENOSIS;

EXANTHEMA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; JAPAN; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 69749099833     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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