Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome

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Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome


A disease of infants due to group 2 phage type 17 staphylococci that produce an epidermolytic exotoxin. Superficial fine vesicles and bullae form and rupture easily, resulting in loss of large sheets of epidermis.


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