The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 89, 687-698,
Copyright, 1949, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
INDUCTION OF CARDIAC LESIONS, CLOSELY RESEMBLING THOSE OF RHEUMATIC FEVER, IN RABBITS FOLLOWING REPEATED SKIN INFECTIONS WITH GROUP A STREPTOCOCCI
George E. Murphy M.D.1 and
Homer F. Swift M.D.1
1 From the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Cardiac lesions, closely resembling those found in rheumatic fever, have developed in rabbits that sickened following multiple, successive skin infections with several serological types of group A streptococci.
Submitted on March 9, 1949