"Exfoliatins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D005083
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.097.293 D23.946.123.353 D23.946.350.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Exfoliatins- Exfoliatins
- Staphylococcal Exfoliative Toxin
- Exfoliative Toxin, Staphylococcal
- Toxin, Staphylococcal Exfoliative
- Epidermolysins
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| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Exfoliatins" by people in Profiles.
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Lo AS, Mao X, Mukherjee EM, Ellebrecht CT, Yu X, Posner MR, Payne AS, Cavacini LA. Pathogenicity and Epitope Characteristics Do Not Differ in IgG Subclass-Switched Anti-Desmoglein 3 IgG1 and IgG4 Autoantibodies in Pemphigus Vulgaris. PLoS One. 2016; 11(6):e0156800.