Infectious Disease · Infectious disease / Bacterial infections
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
also: STSS
Group A streptococcal infection with shock and organ failure.
- Specialty
- Infectious Disease
- Subspecialty
- Infectious disease / Bacterial infections
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: yes
- Gene(s) involved
- HLA-DQB1*06, HLA-DRB1*15
- Alternative names & eponyms
- STSS
Etiology & mechanism
Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxins.
Gene(s) involved (2)
Symptoms & signs (4)
In plain terms, someone with Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
Cytokine release syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Dengue shock syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Middle East respiratory syndrome
fever, renal failure
2 shared
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Toxic shock syndrome
fever, hypotension
2 shared
Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome
fever, hypotension
1 shared
Abdominal compartment syndrome
hypotension
Shares genes with
None.
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