Sentences with phrase «cause rheumatic fever»

Scabies wounds often become infected by Group A streptococcus bacteria, which can cause rheumatic fever, acute kidney disease and rheumatic heart disease.

The strains of the bacterium that cause rheumatic fever picked up toxin genes from viruses.

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The danger about strep throat is that if it is not treated it could lead to rheumatic fever, which in turn can cause damage to the heart valves.

Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)-- or the rheumatic fever that causes it — as more than a historical footnote.

In the developing world, stenosis can be a consequence of rheumatic fever (caused by untreated strep infection) during childhood.

To see if the concept held — and whether Sydenham chorea even caused OCD — Swedo and her partner at NIMH, psychiatrist Henrietta Leonard, conducted a retrospective study in 1989 of three sites in the United States that had rheumatic fever outbreaks: Salt Lake City, the Ohio River Valley and Walden, Penn..

Group A Streptococcus are some of the most common bacteria, causing diseases from strep throat to rheumatic fever.

In their search for such a trigger in people who had become narcoleptic, Mignot's group found elevated levels of antibodies to Streptococcus pyogenes, a bacterium that causes strep throat and has been implicated in other autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatic fever.

Less common causes for the stenosis are rheumatic fever, and sometimes it can be congenital.

The reaction causes inflammation in heart valves (part of the condition known as rheumatic fever).