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<microbiology> Disease involving inflammation of joints and damage to heart valves that follows streptococcal infection and is believed to be autoimmune, i.e. Antibodies to streptococcal components cross react with host tissue antigens.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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