Bacterial toxins and sudden unexpected death in infancy (letter)

Title: Bacterial toxins and sudden unexpected death in infancy (letter)
Creator: Blackwell, Caroline
Relation: The Lancet Vol. 372, Issue 9640, p. 714-714
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61296-9
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: The report by M A Weber and colleagues (May 31, p 1848) supports many previous studies in which Staphylococcus aureus and gram negative organisms were isolated from infants who died suddenly and unexpectedly. S aureus best fits predictions of the bacterial toxin hypothesis of sudden unexpected death in infancy. There are research groups with specialist techniques for detection of various bacterial toxins and the host’s response to them; co-operative studies between these groups with clinical teams such as that at Great Ormond Street could provide significant insights into the role of infectious agents and inflammation in SUDI.
Subject: sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI); bacterial toxins; Staphylococcus aureus; cytokines
Identifier: uon:5667
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43581
Identifier: ISSN:0140-6736

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