scalded skin syndrome

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scalded skin syndrome.

See toxic epidermal necrolysis.

a disease of human skin mirrored closely by a lesion in Greyhounds from which pure cultures of Staphylococcus aureus can be isolated. The lesions commence as large, thin-walled bullae along the dorsum of the neck and trunk which cause erection of a patch of hair. Rupture of the bullae leads to loss of hair and scab formation. See also sore.

scalded skin syndrome

1 Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, see there 2 Toxic epidermal necrolysis, see there

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