C Olivier - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2000 - Br Soc Antimicrob Chemo 100,000 children of school age (from 5 years to 17 or 18 years depending on the
study). In the French West Indies, the incidence of rheumatic fever in 1980 was
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NA da Silva, BA de Faria Pereira - Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 1997 - Elsevier Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) continues to be a major health problem in
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DR Osmon - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2000 - mayoclinproc.highwire.org Antimicrobial prophylaxis is used by clinicians for the prevention of numerous
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D Thatai, ZG Turi - Drugs, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com Abstract Rheumatic fever is a multisystem inflammatory disease that occurs as a
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GH Stollerman - Annals of internal medicine, 1993 - Am Coll Physicians This editorial reviews a current report of the disappearance of recurrent
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SJ Hutchison - Journal of Infection, 1998 - Elsevier A Tarranta, E Kleinberg, AR Feinstein, HF Wood, E Tursky and R Simpson,
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A Saxena - Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2002 - Springer • Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease continue unabated, affecting
young individuals in most of the developing nations. Focal outbreaks of smaller
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M Panamonta, A Chaikitpinyo, N … - International journal of cardiology, 2007 - Elsevier Six recurrences of rheumatic fever occurred in 6 of the 36 patients. One
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GH Stollerman - Indian heart journal - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov In the latter half of the 20th century, the clinical importance of variation in
the virulence of strains of GAS has been clearly demonstrated. Although still
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