A Model for Rheumatic Carditis?
- ANGELO TARANTA, M.D.
- Department of Medicine and
Irvington House Institute
New York University Medical School
New York, N. Y.
Excerpt
Over the last 10 years Cromartie, Schwab, and their associates have been carrying out an intriguing series of experiments with cell wall fragments of group A (and C) streptococci (1). These preparations injected into the skin of rabbits cause, after a latent period of 2 to 14 days, relapsing nodular lesions of the skin for as long as 80 days after a single injection. The process appears to be not immunologic but rather "toxic" in the wide sense of the word because damage starts after 3 hr only and is not affected by repeated injections. Interestingly, neither whole streptococcal cells
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