Toxic-shock-like-syndrome due to Streptococcus pneumoniae sinusitis

Scand J Infect Dis. 1999;31(5):509-10. doi: 10.1080/00365549950164076.

Abstract

We describe a patient with Streptococcus pneumoniae sinusitis associated with a severe sepsis syndrome and desquamative rash whose clinical illness strongly resembled toxic-shock syndrome. Assay of convalescent serum for antibodies to toxic-shock syndrome toxin 1 was negative. This case suggests the possibility of an additional bacterial pathogen associated with toxic-shock syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Pneumococcal Infections / diagnosis
  • Pneumococcal Infections / physiopathology*
  • Shock, Septic / diagnosis
  • Shock, Septic / etiology
  • Sinusitis / complications*
  • Sinusitis / microbiology*
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification*
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / etiology
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / physiopathology*