1 Rheumatic Fever Research Laboratory of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Streptococcal antihyaluronidase and antistreptolysin O titers were determined at the time of hospitalization and 1 month later for patients with acute rheumatic fever included in a clinical study of the effects of ACTH and cortisone on this disease. The sera of the groups of patients receiving cortisone and ACTH showed a greater fall in serum titer in this interval in both tests than did the symptomatically treated control patients.
Submitted on May 31, 1955