Towards developing a vaccine for rheumatic heart disease

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most serious manifestations of rheumatic fever, which is caused by group A Streptococcus (GAS or Streptococcus pyogenes) infection. RHD is an auto immune sequelae of GAS pharyngitis, rather than the direct bacterial infection of the heart, which leads to chronic...

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Autores principales: Gandhi, Geethanjali Devadoss, Krishnamoorthy, Navaneethakrishnan, Motal, Ussama M. Abdel, Yacoub, Magdi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation 2017
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28971103
http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2017.4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28971103
http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2017.4

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