Abstract

Adult patients infected with influenza A and S. aureus developed a fulminant pneumonia, but no documented cases of TSS have been reported to date. Multisystem failure is seen in TSS and may be mediated by the enterotoxin TSST-1, which is produced by certain strains of S. aureus. We describe a 12-yr-old female with nonmenstrual TSS following infection with influenza A

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