Group a beta-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis in preschool children aged 3 months to 5 years

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 357-360

  Nussinovitch, Moshe ^a,b   Finkelstein, Yaron ^a   Amir, Jacob ^a   Varsano, Itzak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISTREPTOLYSIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THROAT CULTURE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0033048401     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992289903800606     Document Type: Article

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