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 ...

Rheumatic heart disease is a chronic condition that results years after acute rheumatic fever, which is caused by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes. This organism produces a ...

Comprehensive molecular data generated from this research using innovative ... RHD, a complication of acute rheumatic fever (ARF), develops as a result of strep throat (causative agent Streptococcus ...

"For school-aged children with rheumatic fever, monthly intramuscular penicillin injections for around 10 years can be ...