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Is That All There Is?

Moise L. Levy, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2008;144(2):245.

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In this issue of the Archives, Patrizi and colleagues¹ describe 11 previously healthy children with an often recurrent and very distinctive perineal eruption in the setting of streptococcal infections. One of the children also had Staphylococcus aureus recovered from a skin culture. Some of the children had erythema and ultimate desquamation of the skin on the palms (n = 4) and axillae (n = 1). The authors relate these findings to recurrent toxin-mediated perineal erythema (RTPE) reported by Manders et al² in this journal in 1996. One of those 2 cases described involved a 16-year-old boy. These patients were found to have positive bacterial cultures for Streptococcus pyogenes (case 1) and S aureus (case 2), and both yielded toxins on further investigation.

The current group of patients were not investigated for toxins owing to the lack of such testing in their institution. That is unfortunate because the presence of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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