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Immunological Relationship between Streptococcus A Polysaccharide and the Structural Glycoproteins of Heart Valve

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Streptococcal infections can cause rheumatic heart disease. Polysaccharide from group A streptococci may induce the production of antibodies by an animal which then react against its own valvular glycoproteins

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GOLDSTEIN, I., HALPERN, B. & ROBERT, L. Immunological Relationship between Streptococcus A Polysaccharide and the Structural Glycoproteins of Heart Valve. Nature 213, 44–47 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213044a0

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