New football boots cause TSS
12/06/2006
According to doctors in this week’s British Medical Journal report, two cases of toxic shock syndrome (TSS) have been discovered in children after playing football in new boots.
Both children developed friction blisters over their Achilles tendons. The blisters contained Staphylococcus aureus, which in one case was found to express the toxic shock syndrome gene (TSS1).
The syndrome is rare in children but these cases show that the syndrome may follow relatively trivial skin trauma.
Both children developed friction blisters over their Achilles tendons. The blisters contained Staphylococcus aureus, which in one case was found to express the toxic shock syndrome gene (TSS1).
The syndrome is rare in children but these cases show that the syndrome may follow relatively trivial skin trauma.
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