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Biological Factors > Toxins, Biological > Bacterial Toxins > Exfoliatins
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Bacterial Proteins > Exfoliatins
Biological Factors > Toxins, Biological > Exotoxins > Exfoliatins

Preferred term

Exfoliatins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Epidermolysins
  • Exfoliative Toxin, Staphylococcal
  • Staphylococcal Exfoliative Toxin
  • Toxin, Staphylococcal Exfoliative

Note

  • /antag permitted but consider also ANTITOXINS

Scope note

  • Protein exotoxins from Staphylococcus aureus, phage type II, which cause epidermal necrolysis. They are proteins with a molecular weight of 26,000 to 32,000. They cause a condition variously called scaled skin, Lyell or Ritter syndrome, epidermal exfoliative disease, toxic epidermal necrolysis, etc.

History note

  • 91(78); was see under BACTERIAL TOXINS 1978-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005083

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