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