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Chemicals and Drugs [D] » Biological Factors [D23] » Toxins, Biological » Exotoxins » Exfoliatins
Description
Protein exotoxins from Staphylococcus aureus, phage type II, which cause epidermal necrolysis. They are proteins with a molecular weight of 26,000 to 32,000. They cause a condition variously called scaled skin, Lyell or Ritter syndrome, epidermal exfoliative disease, toxic epidermal necrolysis, etc. MeSH
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