Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome
Synonyms
Disease, Ritter
Disease, Ritter's
Ritter Disease
Ritter's Disease
Ritters Disease
Scalded Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
Scalded-Skin Syndrome, Staphylococcal
Scalded-Skin Syndromes, Staphylococcal
Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome
Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndromes
Syndrome, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin
Syndromes, Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin
A disease of infants due to group 2 phage type 17 staphylococci that produce an epidermolytic exotoxin. Superficial fine vesicles and bullae form and rupture easily, resulting in loss of large sheets of epidermis.