Scarlet fever is a contagious infection that typically infects young children - particularly those between the ages of two ...

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RHEUMATIC fever has been generally regarded as a disease principally affecting children, and its occurrence in adults has as a consequence been more or less ignored. The high incidence of this dise ...

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Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) prophylaxis means preventive measures that stop a recurrence of ARF. These involve taking antibiotics to prevent infection. Read more.

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New advice on preventing rheumatic fever by the appropriate diagnosis and treatment of acute streptococcal pharyngitis has been published in a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

MONTHLY intramuscular injections of benzathine penicillin G§ were given over a period of several years to a group of adults with rheumatic heart disease for rheumatic-fever prophylaxis. This ...

By 1928 she was ready to report that the bugs that cause scarlet fever and destroy red blood cells and pave the way for rheumatic fever and heart and kidney damage, could all be identified as ...

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Both are caused by infection with group A streptococcal bacteria. Rheumatic fever occurs mainly in children from 5 to 15 years old, and it usually causes symptoms one to five weeks after infection.