Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Perpoint, Thomas
• Lina, Gerard
• Poyart, Claire
• de Barbeyrac, Bertille
• Traineau, Richard
• Jeanne, Michel
• Vandenesch, François
• Etienne, Jerome

Titel

Two Cases of Fatal Shock after Transfusion of Platelets Contaminated by Staphylococcus aureus: Role of Superantigenic Toxins

Ist Teil von

• Clinical infectious diseases, 2004-11, Vol.39 (10), p.e106-e109

Ort / Verlag

United States: The University of Chicago Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We detected Staphylococcus aureus superantigenic toxins in the platelet infusion bags that had been used for 2 patients who subsequently developed transfusion-associated Staphylococcus aureus infection. Both patients, who were immunodeficient, developed manifestations of toxic shock syndrome and septic shock, and they died soon after the onset of infection.