Journal of the American Medical Association · 1939 · 32 citations · 2 references
MedicineInfectious DiseasesPediatricsMedical MicrobiologyPediatric RheumatologyRheumatologyBacterial InfectionsPulmonary InfectionsRespiratory DiseaseRespiratory InfectionsRespiratory Infectious DiseasesRespiratory Tract InfectionsAcute Rheumatic FeverAcute Upper Respiratory Tract InfectionsBacterial Respiratory InfectionRespiratory Infections In ChildrenRheumatic Fever PathogenesisStreptococcus SpeciesUpper Respiratory InfectionsUpper Respiratory Tract Infection Association
The clinical association of infections of the upper respiratory tract with the precipitation of attacks of rheumatic fever has received attention for many years. More recently, the reports of Coburn and his co-workers<sup>1</sup>have stressed the importance of the invasion of the respiratory tract by the hemolytic streptococcus in infections of the upper respiratory tract associated with rheumatic fever. This relation between hemolytic streptococcus tonsillitis or pharyngitis and recurrent rheumatic fever is familiar to the majority of the students of the disease. On the other hand, Wilson and her co-workers<sup>2</sup>state that, "while the occurrence of respiratory infections in a rheumatic child may not be a fortuitous event, it would seem to bear no more specific etiological relationship to rheumatic disease than would be attributed to similar episodes occurring in the tuberculous child." The data to be discussed are the clinical portion of the results of a large
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