Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 and the streptococcal enterotoxins involved in TSS are classed as superantigens. 9 These are proteins that are able to over-activate the immune system by bypassing the ...

In human beings, as well as in most non-human primates, the major peripheral γδ T cell subset, which accounts several percent of the whole lymphoid cells pool in adults, carries an heterodimeric TCR ...

However, the bacteria cultured from our patient's periorbital area were bacteria that have not been associated with superantigens. Therefore, we postulate that this patient had subclinical primary ...