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Microbial Triggers

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Before the advent of penicillin, rheumatic fever with lesions of the heart and joints was a frequent autoimmune complication of infections by β-haemolytic streptococci of Lancefield Group A.

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    Duncan Dartrey Adams

  2. Analogue Digital Instruments, 713 Kaikorai Valley Rd, 9010, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Christopher Dartrey Adams

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Adams, D.D., Adams, C.D. (2013). Microbial Triggers. In: Autoimmune Disease. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6937-3_4

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