Toxic Shock Syndrome
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Research
2005
Clostridium
sordellii Toxic Shock Syndrome after Medical Abortion with Mifepristone
and Intravaginal Misoprostol- United States and Canada, 2001-2005 (7/30/05)
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The Food and Drug Administration, CDC, and local and state health departments
continue to investigate the cases of four women in the United States who died
after medical abortions during 2003-2005 with Mifeprex® (mifepristone, formerly
RU-486) and intravaginal misoprostol. A fifth death after medical abortion with
the same drugs was reported in 2001, in Canada. Three of the deaths have been
linked to infection with Clostridium sordellii.
Letter:
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Toxic Shock Syndrome (3/30/05)
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol11no04/pdfs/04-0893.pdf
This is a report of a case of toxic shock syndrome (TSS) due to a methicillin-resistant
S. aureus strain that produced a TSS toxin 1. A 54-year-old woman was
admitted to the emergency ward of Brugmann University Hospital, Brussels,
with a 2-day history of myalgia, diarrhea, and vomiting. She had undergone
surgery for a palate neoplasia 2 months earlier, and again 2 weeks
earlier, in another hospital. After the second operation, she had been
treated for a local scar infection with amoxicillin-clavulanic acid
for 1 week. TSS caused by MRSA strains has been found extensively in
Japan, rarely in the United States, and, thus far, not in Europe.
2004
Early and Definitive
Diagnosis of Toxic Shock Syndrome by Detection of Marked Expansion of T-Cell-Receptor
Vβ2-Positive T Cells
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Two cases are reported of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) with puerperal infection
that could be diagnosed at the early stage of the clinical course by detecting
a marked expansion of T-cell-receptor V 2-positive T cells, as measured by flow
cytometric analysis. The symptoms of one patient were too complex to permit diagnosis
according to the clinical criteria without evaluation of the TSST-1-reactive
T cells. The role of T-cell analysis in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in
the diagnosis of TSS is discussed. From the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal.
1997
Toxic Shock
Syndrome in the United States: 1979-1996
Menstrual toxic shock syndrome (TSS) emerged as a public health threat to women
of reproductive age in 1979-80. Surveillance data was reviewed for the period
1979 to 1996, when 5,296 cases were reported, and changes in the epidemiologic
features of TSS were discussed in this article.
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