Netherton Syndrome, a Case Report and Review of Literature.

The article presents a case study of a 63-day-old premature-born boy who was admitted due to severe failure to thrive and diarrhea and generalized erythroderma and scaling. He was diagnosed with sepsis through positive blood culture for Staphylococcus aureus. The authors discuss the netherton syndrome (NS) as a rare hereditary autosomal recessive multisystem disorder which presents with generalized erythroderma at birth or soon after.