Assertion: rheumatic fever | /r/CapableOf | mediate by immune response
Facets:
value: to the organism
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Rheumatic Fever is ” a subacute febrile syndrome occurring after group A β-hemolytic streptococcal infection (usually pharyngitis) and mediated by an immune response to the organism; most often seen in children and young adults; features include fever, myocarditis (causing tachycardia and sometimes acute cardiac failure), endocarditis (with valvular incompetence, followed after healing by scarring), and migratory polyarthritis; less often, subcutaneous nodules, erythema marginatum, and Sydenham chorea; relapses can occur after reinfection with streptococci.