From the same aortic lesion in a case of chronic vegetative valvular endocarditis, two strains of streptococci were isolated. One was a typical Streptococcus hemolyticus, the other a typical ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 19.8 million people around the world died from heart disease in 2022, with about 85% of these deaths attributed to stroke and heart attack.

Clinical Infectious Diseases publishes clinically relevant articles on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by ...

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THE well established relation between acute rheumatic fever and antecedent infection due to Group A hemolytic streptococci has resulted in the widely accepted use of continuous daily chemoprophylaxis ...