Sentences with phrase «rheumatic fever outbreaks»

They mapped the genomes of 36 strains collected from patients who died in rheumatic fever outbreaks across the U.S. in the last 73 years.

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..