Tolan R W
Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Clin Infect Dis. 1993 Jul;17(1):43-5. doi: 10.1093/clinids/17.1.43.
Despite extensive literature on toxic shock syndrome, reports of its manifestations in children remain relatively uncommon. Similarly, toxic shock syndrome in association with influenza B or influenza-like illness has been reported in 12 patients, but it has been reported to occur following influenza A in only two patients to date. We report a third case of toxic shock syndrome in a child with influenza A and review the association between epidemic influenza and toxic shock syndrome ("the Thucydides syndrome").
