Gupta Ajay K, Jain Nishesh, Jindal Saurabh, Puri Saurabh, Randhawa Gulshan S
Department of Internal Medicine, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Department of Dermatology, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Aug;11(8):4837-4840. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_144_22. Epub 2022 Aug 30.
Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is a toxin-mediated disease. It is a severe fatal disease inducing immune-mediated inflammatory reaction and occurs because of exotoxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus. Common signs and symptoms at the time of presentation lead to misdiagnosis and delay in initiation of treatment. Prognosis depends primarily on early diagnosis and prompt treatment. This is a case of a young adult male presented with fever, rash, and hypotension and diagnosed with STSS.