Strep throat cases on the rise in Ashtabula County
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ashtabula County is experiencing a spike in cases of strep throat and scarlet fever from strep throat ...
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Mimetic Features of Rheumatic-Fever Recurrences
UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent ...
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Novel therapy being tested for treating rheumatic fever
A new study, published in mBio, employed a novel strategy to halt progression of rheumatic heart disease in a preclinical model by using low-dose interleukin 2 (LD-IL-2). IL-2 is a hormone of the ...
UKHSA warns symptoms of contagious infection become 'serious if untreated'
The bacteria can cause severe complications, such as rheumatic fever, and possible damage to the kidneys, liver, or heart, ...
Mending broken hearts: NZ research could spare sick kids multiple surgeries
Paton is the director of Manaaki Manawa, the Centre for Heart Research at the University of Auckland, where he is leading ...