Cardiovascular Diseases: News and Research on Rheumatic Heart Disease

MeSH tree: C14.280.874

Deliberately infected participants lead to penicillin advance

A unique study purposely giving participants Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) to learn how much penicillin it takes to prevent infection has found the amount needed is much lower than previously thought—a discovery that will ...

Novel therapy being tested for treating rheumatic fever

Painful monthly penicillin injections could be a thing of the past as Griffith University researchers, in collaboration with researchers at the University of New England, are investigating the benefits of an alternative therapy ...

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