Although the mortality from acute rheumatic fever has steadily declined during the last few decades, this disease still remains a serious problem for the practitioner. Rheumatic fever is a challenge because the diagnosis is sometimes difficult, the pathogenesis not clear, and the drugs used in its treatment suppressive rather than curative.
This well-written book offers the reader more than it promises in the title; it covers the etiology, pathogenesis, pathology, diagnosis, management, and prevention of rheumatic fever as well as the biology of the beta hemolytic streptococcus.
Group A Beta Hemolytic Streptococcus and Rheumatic Fever in Miami, Fla.: 8-Month Bacteriological and Serologic Study