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Descriptor English:   Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome 
Descriptor Spanish:   Síndrome Estafilocócico de la Piel Escaldada 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Síndrome da Pele Escaldada Estafilocócica 
Synonyms English:   Disease, Ritter
Disease, Ritter's
Ritter Disease
Ritter's Disease
Ritters Disease
Scalded Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
Scalded-Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
Scalded-Skin Syndromes, Staphylococcal
Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome
Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndromes
Syndrome, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin
Syndromes, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin  
Tree Number:   C01.150.252.410.868.951.770
C01.150.252.819.770.770
C01.800.720.770.770
C17.800.838.765.770.770
Definition English:   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. 
Indexing Annotation English:   in inf; do not confuse with another epidermolytic disease: NONSTAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME see EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; DF: SSSS
History Note English:   1991(1986); use STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS 1986-1990; RITTER'S DISEASE use DERMATITIS EXFOLIATIVA 1968-1985, was heading 1966-1967 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
BL blood CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced CL classification
CO complications CN congenital
DI diagnosis DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy DT drug therapy
EC economics EM embryology
EN enzymology EP epidemiology
EH ethnology ET etiology
GE genetics HI history
IM immunology ME metabolism
MI microbiology MO mortality
NU nursing PS parasitology
PA pathology PP physiopathology
PC prevention & control PX psychology
RT radiotherapy RH rehabilitation
SU surgery TH therapy
TM transmission UR urine
VE veterinary VI virology
Record Number:   19541 
Unique Identifier:   D013206 

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