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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...
Autores principales: | Gandhi, Geethanjali Devadoss, Krishnamoorthy, Navaneethakrishnan, Motal, Ussama M. Abdel, Yacoub, Magdi |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation
2017
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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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