Recurrent menstrual toxic shock syndrome with and without tampons in an adolescent.

Pediatr Infect Dis J

From the *Department of Paediatrics, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, London, Middlesex, United Kingdom; and †American Medical School of the Caribbean, Sint Maarten, Coral Gables, FL.

Published: July 2014

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