Description of the disease * EnglishPolish Pobierz sekcję do PDF Definition A rare bacterial infectious disease most prominently characterized by a red, sandpaper-like rash, a strawberry-like tongue, and a flushed face with perioral pallor. Other clinical symptoms include pharyngitis, tonsillitis, fever, headaches, and swollen lymph nodes. Potential complications are sinusitis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, glomerulonephritis, and endocarditis, among others. The disease is caused by infection with toxin producing strains of <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i> and can affect people of any age, although it is most common in children. Disease data Classification Disease ORPHA code 36235 OMIM code - ICD10 code A38 ICD11 code EA50.3 *Soruce Extended description of the disease Pobierz sekcję do PDF No additional description. Orphanet - interntowa baza danych dotyczących rzadkich chorób i sierochych leków. ©INSERM 1999 - Dostępna na stronie www.orphanet.pl