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Jung, Lee, Pee, and Shin: The Case of Streptococcal Toxic Shock-like Syndrome

Abstract

We experienced a case of streptococcal toxic shock-like sundrome in a 12 year old boy. Symptoms such as fever, sore throat, diffuse erythematous rashes on whole body developed 3 days before admmision. His symptoms rapidly aggravated to develop hypotension, hepatic and renal dysfunction and thrombocytopenia. After admission, intravenous fluid and antibiotic therapy were done and he was succesfully treated. Attention should be paid to recognize and diagnose this fatal disese. We report this case with review of related literatures.

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