Hence staphylococcal scarlet fever may well represent an abortive form of toxic shock syndrome rather than a milder form of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome.

We report the first adult case of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This case is particularly unusual as the MRSA produced ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...