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... > Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Skin Diseases > Skin Diseases, Infectious > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Staphylococcal Skin Infections > Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome
Infections > Skin Diseases, Infectious > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Staphylococcal Skin Infections > Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Staphylococcal Skin Infections > Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections > Staphylococcal Infections > Staphylococcal Skin Infections > Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome

Preferred term

Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

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.

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • Ritter Disease
  • Ritter's Disease
  • Scalded Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
  • Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome

Allowable Qualifier(s)

In other languages

  • Syndrome d'épidermolyse staphylococcique du nourrisson

    French

  • Dermatite exfoliatrice des nouveau-nés
  • Dermatite exfoliatrice du nouveau-né
  • Dermatite exfoliatrice Ritter von Rittersheim
  • Épidermolyse staphylococcique aiguë
  • Épidermolyse staphylococcique aigüe
  • Épidermolyse superficielle staphylococcique
  • Maladie de Ritter
  • Nécrolyse épidermique staphylococcique
  • Syndrome de la peau ébouillantée staphylococcique
  • Syndrome de Lyell staphylococcique

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-LV6QLG21-D

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