2024
DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics13010096
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Toxic Shock Syndrome: A Literature Review

Enora Atchade,
Christian De Tymowski,
Nathalie Grall
et al.

Abstract: Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a rare, life-threatening, toxin-mediated infectious process linked, in the vast majority of cases, to toxin-producing strains of Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes. The pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, microbiological features, management and outcome of TSS are described in this review. Bacterial superantigenic exotoxins induces unconventional polyclonal lymphocyte activation, which leads to rapid shock, multiple organ failure syndrome, and death.… Show more

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