Abstract
A neonate and his mother presented with fever and erythroderma. The mother met full diagnostic criteria for staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome, whereas the neonate lacked hypotension and multiorgan dysfunction. A wound culture from the neonate's circumcision site grew methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus containing the tst gene. This provides evidence of the first reported case of toxic shock syndrome caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a mother-newborn pair.
MeSH terms
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Bacterial Toxins / genetics
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Child, Preschool
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Enterotoxins / genetics
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / genetics
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
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Mothers
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Shock, Septic / diagnosis*
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Shock, Septic / microbiology*
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Shock, Septic / pathology
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Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis*
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Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
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Staphylococcal Infections / pathology
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Superantigens / genetics
Substances
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Bacterial Toxins
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Enterotoxins
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Superantigens
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enterotoxin F, Staphylococcal