What are the symptoms of rheumatic fever and its risks?

The rheumatic fever is a secondary, systemic, inflammatory disease type to an autoimmune response to streptococcal infection produced at the level of upper airway. Cause of rheumatic fever. The causative agent of rheumatic fever is group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus. After pharyngeal infection, components of the bacteria are released that can generate antigenic determinants (epitopes) in other human tissues, so that an autoimmune […]

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