Migratory polyarthritis is the most common symptom in acute rheumatic fever. Subcutaneous nodules arise over the bones and tendons, as well as a rash that starts on the trunk and extends to the limbs.

They go on to elaborate the common clinical manifestations of rheumatic diseases - common symptoms (such as prolonged or recurrent fever, musculoskeletal manifestations (such as arthritis-presence ...

Scarlet fever, or scarlatina, is a bacterial infection that causes a distinctive bright red sandpaper-like rash.

UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent ...