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Culture-negative severe septic shock: indications for streptococcal aetiology based on plasma antibodies and
1Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|August 30, 2001
Abstract:
We present a severe septic shock syndrome patient with negative blood cultures. Acute and convalescent plasma samples from the patient were analysed for anti-streptolysin O titres, superantigen-neutralizing activity and presence of superantigenic activity. The plasma analyses implicated superantigen-producing Streptococcus pyogenes as the causative agent.