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Streptococcal-Sex Syndrome

Richard T. Ellison III, MD; James A. McGregor, MD

JAMA. 1987;257(23):3260-3262.

Abstract
Two women with underlying distortion of their lower-body lymphatic systems from neoplasia and surgery or radiation therapy had recurrent episodes of lower-extremity erythroderma temporally associated with sexual intercourse. Both women had vaginal colonization with Streptococcus agalactiae (group B); one was shown to have recurrent bacteremia with this organism at the time of the episodes. Erythroderma developed in these women possibly because of seeding of S agalactiae in the vaginal soft tissues during coitus.

(JAMA 1987;257:3260-3262)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Infectious Diseases, the Departments of Medicine (Dr Ellison) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (Dr McGregor), University of Colorado School of Medicine; and the Infectious Disease Section, Veterans Administration Medical Center (Dr Ellison), Denver.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Infectious Disease Section (111L), Veterans Administration Medical Center, 1055 Clermont St, Denver, CO 80220 (Dr Ellison).

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