A 7-Year-Old Boy and a 14-Year-Old Girl Initially Diagnosed with Toxic Shock Syndrome and Tested Positive for SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Supporting a Diagnosis of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

Case series Patients: Male, 7-year-old • Female, 14-year-old Final Diagnosis: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) Symptoms: Muscular weakness • shock Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Critical Care Medicine • Infectious Diseases • Pediatrics and Neonatology • Rheumatology Objective: Unusual clinical course Background: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has recently been described in children infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This report describes 2 children with MIS-C who were initially diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome but who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection on reverse transcription-polym…