Affiliation:
1. Department of Paediatric Surgery Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street London
2. Department of Infectious Diseases Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street London
Abstract
SUMMARY Three infants with clinical features of sepsis, hypovolaemia and an acute abdomen were referred to a paediatric surgical unit. Subsequent clinical signs of diffuse macular erythema followed by desquamation and isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from nasal or umbilical swabs led to a diagnosis of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome. Surgical intervention was not indicated
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