Inefficacy of a 3-day course of azithromycin in preventing acute rheumatic fever after group A streptococcal infection (scarlet fever) in an 8-year-old child [2]

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 123-124

  Ghirga, G ^a   Palazzi, C ^a   Ghirga, P ^a   Turchetti, G ^a   Turchetti, A ^a   Colaiacomo, M ^a  

^a San Paolo General Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 GLOBULIN; ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; AZITHROMYCIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; SALICYLIC ACID;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTHRITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THROAT CULTURE;

EID: 0032937243     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(99)70391-4     Document Type: Letter

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