Scalded skin syndrome is spread the same way staphylococcal aureus bacteria is spread. Epidemics may break out in nurseries when caregivers have been exposed to an infected baby or have the ...

Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) is a disease that usually affects infants and young children who lack the antibodies to Staphylococcus aureus toxins that adults have. It is caused by ...

It's called Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome (SSSS) and could be deadly for kids under six years old. "It's traumatic, it's shocking," Katelyn Tarr, Jayce's mother, said outside of the hospital ...

Other staph infections of the skin include impetigo, a painful rash that is contagious; boils; and staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, which causes rash, blisters, and fever, in babies and young ...

Children with staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome generally need to be treated in the hospital with antibiotics, intravenous fluids, skin creams or ointments, and pain medicines. Because SSSS ...

ATLANTA — An Atlanta baby is ... a rare staph infection. Baby Jayce is about to turn 1-year-old but is currently in the intensive care unit at a metro hospital battling Scalded skin syndrome.

IN 1952 Farquharson et al. 1 reported the control of an outbreak of staphylococcal skin lesions in their nurseries by washing all infants with a hexachlorophene-containing preparation twenty-four ...

is a serious skin condition caused by certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteria. It causes large, peeling ...

It's called Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome (SSSS ... added layer of stress on top of the growing blisters on their baby's skin and both not being able to work while he was in the hospital.