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Extreme Pyrexia and Rapid Death Due to Staphylococcus aureus Infection: Analysis of 2 Cases
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Extreme Pyrexia and Rapid Death Due to Staphylococcus aureus Infection: Analysis of 2 Cases

Aristides P Assimacopoulos, Kristi L Strandberg, Jessica H Rotschafer and Patrick M Schlievert
Clinical infectious diseases, Vol.48(5), pp.612-614
03/01/2009
DOI: 10.1086/597009
PMID: 19191649
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https://doi.org/10.1086/597009View
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Abstract

We describe unusual Staphylococcus aureus infections in 2 patients. The infections were characterized by extreme pyrexia and rapid death. Both causative organisms produced a deletion mutant form of toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 and variant enterotoxin C, which may have caused pyrexia and death.

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