Journal article
Extreme Pyrexia and Rapid Death Due to Staphylococcus aureus Infection: Analysis of 2 Cases
Clinical infectious diseases, Vol.48(5), pp.612-614
03/01/2009
DOI: 10.1086/597009
PMID: 19191649
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Extreme Pyrexia and Rapid Death Due to Staphylococcus aureus Infection: Analysis of 2 Cases
- Creators
- Aristides P Assimacopoulos - Sanford School of Medicine of the University ofKristi L Strandberg - Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical SchoolJessica H Rotschafer - Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical SchoolPatrick M Schlievert - Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical infectious diseases, Vol.48(5), pp.612-614
- DOI
- 10.1086/597009
- PMID
- 19191649
- NLM abbreviation
- Clin Infect Dis
- ISSN
- 1058-4838
- eISSN
- 1537-6591
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984001137602771
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