Scarlet fever toxin

Watson D Host-parasite factors in group A streptococcal infections. Pyrogenic and other effects of immunologic distinct exotoxins related to scarlet fever toxins. J Exp Med 1960 111 255—284. 

Braun MA, Gerlach D, Hartwig UF, Ozegowski JH, Romagne F, Carrel S, Kohler W, Fleischer B Stimulation of human T cells by streptococcal superantigen erythrogenic toxins (scarlet fever toxins). J Immunol 1993 150 2457-2466. 

Many protein systems betides those discussed have been subjected to oxidative studies. Some of these are carbonic anbydrase (52), papain, and catheptic-like enzymes (53-57), invertase (58), succinic dehydrogenase (59), triosephosphate dehydrogenase (60), glycerol oxidase (61), and scarlet fever toxin (62). 

A number of other papers which the reader may find of interest deal with the action of iodine on insulin (302, 131), chorionic gonadotrophin (303), scarlet fever toxin (62), serum proteins (167) and tobacco mosaic virus (77, 68). 

Nelson, K., Schlievert, P.M., Selander, R.K., and Musser, J.M. 1991. Characterization and clonal distribution of four alleles of the speA gene encoding pyrogenic exotoxin A (scarlet fever toxin) in Streptococcus pyogenes. J. Exp. Med. 174 1271 -1274. 

Stevens, D.L., Tanner, M.H., Winship, J., Swarts, R., Ries, K.M., Schlievert, RM., and Kaplan, E. 1989. Reappearance of scarlet fever toxin A among streptococci in the Rocky Mountain West Association with severe streptococcal soft tissue infection, sepsis and the toxic shock-like syndrome. N. Engl. J. Med. 321 1-7. 

Scarlet fever is produced following infection with certain strains of Strep, pyogenes. These produce a potent toxin which causes an erythrogenic skin rash which accompanies the more usual effects of a streptococcal infection. 

A second toxin (toxin B) was identified in 1934 [20] and yet another toxin was isolated from culture filtrate of a serotype Ml 8 strain, associated with scarlet fever and named toxin C [21],... 

Hooker S, Follensby E Studies on scarlet fever. 2. Different toxins produced by hemolytic streptococci of scarlatinal origin. J Immunol 1934 27 177-193. 

Scarlet fever (sometimes called scarlatina) Infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes that produces an erythrogenic toxin. 

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