Group A Beta Hemolytic Streptococcus and Rheumatic Fever in Miami, Fla.: 8-Month Bacteriological and Serologic Study

Epidemiology of group-A beta-hemolytic streptococci as related to acute rheumatic fever in Miami, Florida. A six-year study.

EPISODES of acute rheumatic fever are believed to be triggered by infections with group-A /3-hemolytic streptococei, 10 to 35 days prior to the rheumatic complication. However, both rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are infrequent in Miami, Florida.1' 2 If the incidence rate of rheumatic disease depends on the frequeney of group A streptococei, the low rheumatic rate in Miamni should ...

Group A beta hemolytic streptococci and rheumatic fever in Miami, Florida. III. Bacteriologic observations on beta hemolytic streptococci other than group A.

Group A beta hemolytic streptococci and rheumatic fever in Miami, Florida. I. Bacteriologic observations from October 1954 through May 1955.

Streptococcus and rheumatic fever.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To give an overview of the current hypotheses of the pathogenesis of rheumatic fever and group A streptococcal autoimmune sequelae of the heart valve and brain. RECENT FINDINGS Human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) derived from rheumatic heart disease have provided evidence for crossreactive autoantibodies that target the dominant group A streptococcal epitope of the group A ca...

Bacteriological and Serological Study among Patients Suffering from Rheumatic Fever

The aim of this study was to help in increasing the sensitivity and specificityof rheumatic fever (RF) diagnosing. One hundred and eight patients and volunteers were selected from Orthopedic Surgery Department at ElSahel Teaching Hospital (Cairo-Egypt), during the period from January 2008 to October 2009. Their ages ranged from 3 to 25 years old. Patients were divided into four groups. The firs...