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. 1949 May 31;89(6):687–698. doi: 10.1084/jem.89.6.687

INDUCTION OF CARDIAC LESIONS, CLOSELY RESEMBLING THOSE OF RHEUMATIC FEVER, IN RABBITS FOLLOWING REPEATED SKIN INFECTIONS WITH GROUP A STREPTOCOCCI

George E Murphy 1, Homer F Swift 1
PMCID: PMC2135892  PMID: 18129867

Abstract

Cardiac lesions, closely resembling those found in rheumatic fever, have developed in rabbits that sickened following multiple, successive skin infections with several serological types of group A streptococci.

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