美国明尼苏达大学微生物学教授帕特里克 M·谢列威尔特(Patrick M·Schlievert)最近自豪地宣布:他在一份标本中培养出一种新的能引起中毒休克综合症的细菌毒素。中毒性休克综合症是在1978年首次得到证实的,这是金黄色葡葡球菌的毒素引起的,这种综合症多发生在月经期间的妇女,而且与使用一种有高吸附能力的止血棉塞有关。其主要症状是呕吐,腹泻,高热,低血压,肾功能衰竭和休克。 Patrick M. Schlievert, a professor of microbiology at the University of Minnesota, USA, recently announced: He cultivated a new bacterial toxin that causes toxic shock syndrome in a specimen. Toxic shock syndrome was first confirmed in 1978, which is caused by the toxin of Staphylococcus aureus, which occurs mostly in women during menstruation and is associated with the use of a highly adsorptive hemostatic cotton Plug related. The main symptoms are vomiting, diarrhea, fever, hypotension, renal failure and shock.