The streptococcal antibodies become involved in an autoimmune process.
Streptococcal pharyngitis usually appears suddenly with severe sore throat pain.
This is held to be due to failure to treat streptococcal infections early.
With such high rates of streptococcal acquisition it is possible that most susceptible people will eventually develop rheumatic fever.
Relation of the rheumatic fever recurrence rate per streptococcal infection to preexisting clinical features of the patients.
The purpose of this study is to test whether streptococcal infection can be associated with idiopathic mitral regurgitation.
There were no reports of non-suppurative sequels of streptococcal pharyngitis in the other articles reviewed.
