| exfoliatin | <microbiology> Epidermolytic toxin produced by some strains of Staphylococcus aureus, causes detachment of outer layer of skin by disrupting desmosomes of the stratum granulosum. (11 Nov 1997) |
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| exfoliatins | Protein exotoxins from staphylococcus aureus, phage type II, which cause epidermal necrolysis. They are proteins with a molecular weight of 26,000 to 32,000. They cause a condition variously called scaled skin, lyell or ritter syndrome, epidermal exfoliative disease, toxic epidermal necrolysis, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |