Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is the result of an autoimmune response to pharyngitis caused by infection with group A Streptococcus. The long-term damage to cardiac valves caused by ARF, which can result from a single severe episode or from multiple recurrent episodes of the illness, is known as rheum...

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I publikationen:Nat Rev Dis Primers
Huvudupphovsmän: Carapetis, Jonathan R., Beaton, Andrea, Cunningham, Madeleine W., Guilherme, Luiza, Karthikeyan, Ganesan, Mayosi, Bongani M., Sable, Craig, Steer, Andrew, Wilson, Nigel, Wyber, Rosemary, Zühlke, Liesl
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: 2016
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810582/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27188830
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrdp.2015.84
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