Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome |
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| Ritter's Disease; Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome; Disease, Ritter; Disease, Ritter's; Ritters Disease; Scalded-Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal; Scalded-Skin Syndromes, Staphylococcal; Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndromes | |
| 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. | |