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- syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons
How To Use toxic shock syndrome In A Sentence
- Objective In order to isolate and purify an exotoxin of Streptococcus mitis which can cause toxic shock syndrome and investigate its pathogenicity.
- The names of some are notoriously well-known: Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the organisms responsible for toxic shock syndrome and legionnaire's disease.
- The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include high fever, a rash, vomiting and low blood pressure.
- The synthetic materials used in tampons, such as rayon (bleached by chlorine), contain carcinogenic substances like dioxin, and have been known to cause toxic shock syndrome.
- We report a fatal case of toxic shock syndrome in a 14 year old girl associated with minor day case dermatological surgery.
- High absorbency tampons left in the vagina for a long time have been associated with a dangerous illness called toxic shock syndrome.
- Alarmingly, since the 1980s S. pyogenes has been identified to be globally responsible for a class of emerging, life threatening, invasive infections including the "flesh-eating" disease, necrotizing fasciitis, septicemia, and the excretion of the pyrogenic exotoxin-associated toxic shock syndrome PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Seek medical attention immediately if toxic shock syndrome is suspected with insight from a family practitioner in this free video on medical conditions.
- We report a fatal case of toxic shock syndrome in a 14 year old girl associated with minor day case dermatological surgery.
- They said doctors treating children for toxic shock syndrome should be aware of the risk.
