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... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections > Staphylococcal Infections > Staphylococcal Skin Infections > Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome

Preferred term

Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Disease, Ritter
  • Disease, Ritter's
  • Ritter Disease
  • Ritter's Disease
  • Ritters Disease
  • Scalded-Skin Syndromes, Staphylococcal
  • Scalded Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
  • Scalded-Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
  • Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome
  • Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndromes
  • Syndromes, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin
  • Syndrome, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin

Note

  • in inf; do not confuse with another epidermolytic disease: NONSTAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME see EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC

Scope note

  • A disease of infants due to group 2 phage type 17 staphylococci that produce an epidermolytic exotoxin. Superficial fine vesicles and bullae form and rupture easily, resulting in loss of large sheets of epidermis.

History note

  • 1991(1986); use STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS 1986-1990; RITTER'S DISEASE use DERMATITIS EXFOLIATIVA 1968-1985, was heading 1966-1967

In other languages

  • vastasyntyneen pemfigus

    Finnish

  • dermatitis exfoliativa neonatorum
  • morbus Ritter
  • pemphigus neonatorum
  • Ritter
  • Ritterin tauti
  • SSSS
  • stafylokokin toksiinin aiheuttama hilseilevä ihotulehdus
  • syndroma exfoliativum staphylococcicum
  • vastasyntyneen kesivä ihottuma
  • vastasyntyneen märkärupi
  • Stafylokockorsakad epidermal nekrolys

    Swedish

  • Ritters sjukdom

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013206

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