Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (TSS) was first described in seven children aged 8-17 years by Todd et al. in 1978 [1]. It shortly thereafter became well known as an illness of menstruating women who used tampons [2, 3]. The syndrome is characterized by rapid onset of fever, hypotension, and multisystem failure with desquamating rash occurring in convalescence [4]. The majority of early cases reported were menstrually associated (MTSS) but this has been changing with an increasing proportion of cases non-menstrually associated (NMTSS) [5]. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Laupland, K. B., & Davies, H. D. (2007). Toxic shock syndromes. In Infectious Diseases in Critical Care (pp. 263–270). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34406-3_25
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