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. 2004 Jun;42(6):2866-9.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2866-2869.2004.

Fatal case of toxic shock-like syndrome due to group C streptococcus associated with superantigen exotoxin

Tony M Korman  1 , Anthony Boers, Travis M Gooding, Nigel Curtis, Kumar Visvanathan
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Fatal case of toxic shock-like syndrome due to group C streptococcus associated with superantigen exotoxin

Tony M Korman et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Jun.

Abstract

Group C streptococci have been reported to cause invasive disease similar to that classically associated with group A streptococcus (GAS). We describe a fatal case of toxic shock-like syndrome due to Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus. The causative organism did not possess any known GAS superantigen exotoxin genes but did show evidence of superantigen production.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Proliferation of PBMCs after stimulation for 3 days with culture supernatants from a non-toxin-producing GCS negative control strain, the patient's GCS isolate, and a toxin-producing GAS positive control strain. Each bar represents the mean and standard deviation of three assays. Note the marked dose-dependent proliferation produced by the patient's GCS and GAS supernatants compared to the negative controls.
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