36, No. 5, May, 1925 Studies on the Etiology of Acute Rheumat... Studies on the Etiology of Acute Rheumatic Fever This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. In a relatively high ...

ACUTE rheumatic fever, in the absence of intercurrent streptococcal respiratory infections and rheumatic recrudescences, is generally a self-limited disease that subsides within twelve weeks.

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 ...

Recent evidence suggests that there has been an increase in Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) in the northern portion of the United States. To determine if there has been a similar increase in the south ...