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Is it possible for step throat to develop into scarlet fever?
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Yes & no: The germ that causes group a strep disease, the common strep throat, can come in more than 1 strain.The germ may carry an additional piece of genetic information that gives it the ability to make "erythrotoxin", the material that will spread in the blood & cause the red rash & significant fevers of "scarlet fever".If your strain does not have the extra info, you don't.
Answered 9/28/2016
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