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Posted On : 03 Aug 2005

Why staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome mostly affects infants? What is its pathology?

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Answer Discussion :

D

dr nilesh gothi

because immunity is low

19 years ago

N

neeta kevlani

because of lack of Ig A

19 years ago

P

prathiba pai

it is mediated by exfoliative toxins A and B produced by hematogenous spread of staph.usually antitoxins are produced against these.in the absence of these antitoxin antibodies and decreased renal clearance of exfoliative toxins in infants makes them more prone

19 years ago

W

Wafa A. Bashir

Reduced immunity. Production of toxins and free radicals by the organism

19 years ago

G

Gehan

in infants there is decrease in renal clearance of epidermolytic toxins because decrease in GFR -staph epidermolytic and exfolative toxins spread via hematogenic route lead to granular layear split by binding to desmoglein 1 -? proteolytic .

19 years ago

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