Extreme pyrexia and rapid death due to Staphylococcus aureus infection: analysis of 2 cases.
We describe unusual Staphylococcus aureus infections in 2 patients. The infections were characterized by extreme pyrexia and rapid death. Both causative organisms produced a deletion mutant form of toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 and variant enterotoxin C, which may have caused pyrexia and death.
Assimacopoulos
Aristides P
AP
Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
Strandberg
Kristi L
KL
Rotschafer
Jessica H
JH
Schlievert
Patrick M
PM
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000235:genetics; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018089:Superantigens / Q000235:genetics
D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004768:Enterotoxins; D018089:Superantigens; C030107:enterotoxin F, Staphylococcal; C034959:enterotoxin C, staphylococcal