Diseases

Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome

A disease of infants due to group 2 phage type 17 staphylococci that produce an epidermolytic exotoxin. Superficial fine vesicles and bullae form and rupture easily, resulting in loss of large sheets of epidermis.

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Abstract

A disease of infants due to group 2 phage type 17 staphylococci that produce an epidermolytic exotoxin. Superficial fine vesicles and bullae form and rupture easily, resulting in loss of large sheets of epidermis.

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Synonyms

12 entry terms
  • Ritter Disease
  • Ritter's Disease
  • Scalded Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
  • Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome
  • Disease, Ritter
  • Disease, Ritter's
  • Ritters Disease
  • Scalded-Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
  • Scalded-Skin Syndromes, Staphylococcal
  • Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndromes
  • Syndrome, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin
  • Syndromes, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin

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36 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

in inf; do not confuse with another epidermolytic disease: NONSTAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME see EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC

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History Note

1991(1986); use STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS 1986-1990; RITTER'S DISEASE use DERMATITIS EXFOLIATIVA 1968-1985, was heading 1966-1967

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Previous Indexing

  • Epidermal Necrolysis, Toxic (1966-1985)
  • Staphylococcal Infections (1966-1985)

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  1. C01w.150.252w.410.868w.951.770w
  2. C01w.150.252w.819.770.770w
  3. C01w.800w.720.770.770w
  4. C17.800w.838w.765.770.770w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013206. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013206
  2. Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcal_scalded_skin_syndrome
  3. Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204176