Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome

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Is a:
  • Disease or Syndrome
Definition:
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.
Synonyms:
  • Disease, Ritter
  • Disease, Ritter's
  • Ritter Disease
  • Ritter's Disease
  • Ritters Disease
  • Scalded Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
  • Scalded-Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
  • Scalded-Skin Syndromes, Staphylococcal
  • Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome
  • Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndromes
  • Syndrome, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin
  • Syndromes, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin
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