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01.09.2015 | Understanding the Disease
Understanding toxic shock syndrome
verfasst von:
Jason P. Burnham, Marin H. Kollef
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Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2015
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Excerpt
Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a fulminant Gram positive infection, typically due to
Staphylococcus aureus or
Streptococcus pyogenes, though small series have described similar syndromes in closely related pathogens, including group B, C, and G streptococci. The annual incidence of staphylococcal TSS (SaTSS) is about 0.5/100,000 and about 0.4/100,000 for streptococcal TSS (SeTSS), though local rates may vary [
1,
2]. Mortality rates are below 5 % for menstrual SaTSS, 5–22 % for non-menstrual SaTSS, and 30–70 % for SeTSS [
2‐
5]. …