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Do antibiotics help you recover from rheumatic fever or only prevent relapse?

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Acute RA: Antibiotics will not therapeutically affect arf. They are intended to treat grp a streptococcus pyogenes infection which is a precursor to recurrence of arf.

Answered 4/14/2014

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