Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome in an Adult

Abstract

THE term "staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome" has been proposed to cover a spectrum of clinical lesions including toxic epidermal necrolysis, bullous impetigo, and generalized scarlatiniform eruption.¹ This syndrome may be reproduced in newborn mice by the injection of either live staphylococci² of phage Group II or exfoliative toxin.^{2 , 3} In that model, exfoliation occurred only in animals under six days of age. The case presented below is unusual in that this syndrome occurred in a 19-year-old man from whom staphylococci of phage Group II, capable of producing exfoliative toxin, were isolated.Case ReportA 19-year-old man had chronic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis diagnosed 4 . . .