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Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome

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Definition: 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.  in inf; do not confuse with another epidermolytic disease: NONSTAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME see EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; DF: SSSS    Other names Scalded Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal; Ritter Disease; Syndromes, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin; Syndrome, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin; Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndromes; Scalded-Skin Syndromes, Staphylococcal; Scalded-Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal; Ritters Disease; Disease, Ritter's; Disease, Ritter; Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome; Ritter's Disease

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