| Literature DB >> 21632896 |
Dennis Tappe1, Marco H Schulze, Mark van der Linden, Uwe Ziegler, Andreas Müller, August Stich.
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Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome is a serious health problem in developed and developing countries. We here report a case of severe protracted disease after a minor skin infection in a young traveler returning from West Malaysia which was caused by an unusual emm-type strain harboring speG and smeZ superantigen genes.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21632896 PMCID: PMC3147764 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02623-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948