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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Matsuda, Yoshio ; Kato, Hidehito ; Yamada, Ritsuko ; Okano, Hiroya ; Ohta, Hiroaki ; Imanishi, Ken’ichi ; Kikuchi, Ken ; Totsuka, Kyouichi ; Uchiyama, Takehiko
• Description:
  We describe two cases of early toxic shock syndrome, caused by the superantigen produced from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and diagnosed on the basis of an expansion of T-cell-receptor VBeta2-positive T cells. One case-patient showed atypical symptoms. Our results indicate that diagnostic systems incorporating laboratory techniques are essential for rapid, definitive diagnosis of toxic shock syndrome.
• Subjects:
  Adult Bacterial Toxins Dispatch Enterotoxins Female Humans Puerperal Infection Shock, Septic Superantigens T-cell-receptor Toxic Shock Syndrome Vβ2-positive T Cells

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 9(3):387-389
• Pubmed ID:
  12643839
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC2958545
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  9
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:eacbd950f3cba6ddc0736467ee9e0b0e44d9e13fa78409114720975e21b1e843
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14053/cdc_14053_DS1.pdf
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