Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy in Superantigen-Mediated Toxic Shock Syndrome
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a serious acute bacterial disease characterized by fever, diffuse erythematous rash, hypotension, multiorgan involvement, and desquamation of the skin one to two weeks after onset. Various immunomodulatory agents and antisuperantigen therapeutic strategies have been proposed. One such strategy includes the administration of intravenous polyspecific immunoglobulin (IVIG). This chapter reviews the mechanistic actions and use of IVIG as adjunctive therapy for TSS. Patients were considered to have streptococcal TSS if they had hypotension in combination with two or more of the following: acute renal failure, coagulation abnormalities, liver abnormalities, adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), generalized rash, and necrotizing fasciitis. The observation that staphylococcal TSS patients normally do not have detectable bacteremia, yet the patients demonstrate significant systemic features, suggested that TSS was the result of a toxemia. Most Streptococcus pyogenes strains express several different superantigens, and strains harbor in general genes encoding three to five of the superantigens, but the repertoire of genes varies between strains. S. pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus are major human pathogens largely due to their ability to modulate and exploit the host defense mechanisms. Conventional therapy of invasive S. pyogenes infections has consisted of antimicrobials and, when necessary in severe invasive disease, support of vital functions for those patients with streptococcal TSS and surgery for those patients with necrotizing fasciitis.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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