Acute rheumatic fever in Konya, Turkey

Pediatrics International

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-75

  Karaaslan, Sevim ^a   Oran, Bülent ^a   Reisli, Ismail ^a   Erkul, Ibrahim ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; Rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PENICILLIN G, BENZATHINE; PENICILLINS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC FEVER; TURKEY;

EID: 0034101824     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200X.2000.01180.x     Document Type: Article

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