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Group a streptococcal serotypes isolated from healthy schoolchildren in iran [PDF]
Serotypes of group A streptococci are still a major cause of pharyngitis and some post-infectious sequelae such as rheumatic fever. As part of the worldwide effort to clarify the epidemiological pattern of group A streptococci in different countries, the
Fazeli, M.R.+6 more
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Uni-DUE Student Team: Tackling fact checking through decomposable attention neural network [PDF]
In this paper we present our system for the FEVER Challenge. The task of this challenge is to verify claims by extracting information from Wikipedia. Our system has two parts. In the first part it performs a search for candidate sentences by treating the claims as query.
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Complete Atrioventricular Block in an Adolescent With Rheumatic Fever [PDF]
Rheumatic fever is an acute inflammatory sequela following a group A, β-hemolytic streptococcal infection. Rheumatic fever is characterized by polyarthritis, carditis, chorea, subcutaneous nodules, and erythema marginatum as the major diagnostic criteria.
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Acute Jaundice in a Six-year-old: An Unusual Presentation of Atypical Kawasaki Disease [PDF]
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a rare vasculitis of childhood that is critical to recognize and treat due to associated morbidity and mortality. A six-year-old male presented to our emergency department (ED) afebrile but with reported recent fevers.
Bylund, LCDR William+2 more
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The differential diagnosis of chorea [PDF]
Chorea is a hyperkinetic movement disorder characterised by excessive spontaneous movements that are irregularly timed, randomly distributed and abrupt. In this article, the authors discuss the causes of chorea, particularly Huntington's disease and the ...
Tabrizi, SJ, Wild, EJ
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On rheumatic fever and rheumatic pericarditis [PDF]
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Superficial infections with Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A), pharyngitis and impetigo can induce acute rheumatic fever, an autoimmune sequela manifesting mostly with arthritis and rheumatic carditis.
Usman Nakakana+8 more
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Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Transmission Dynamics of Lassa fever [PDF]
In this work, a periodically-forced seasonal non-autonomous system of a non-linear ordinary differential equation is developed that captures the dynamics of Lassa fever transmission and seasonal variation in the birth of mastomys rodents where time was measured in days to capture seasonality.
arxiv
Treatment of Rheumatic Fever [PDF]
The treatment of active rheumatic fever has changed little over the course of years; bed rest is believed to be necessary for the lessening of residua although there is only slight evidence for this belief. The virtues of salicylates in high and low dosage and of similar compounds, of corticotropin, cortisone and its analogues continue to be discussed ...
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