Declining trend of rheumatic fever observed in bangladesh, 1991-1997

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 169-170

  Zaman, M Mostafa ^a   Yoshiike, Nobuo ^b   Rouf, Mian Abdur ^a   Mahmud, Shahabuddin ^a   Hassan, M M Monzur ^a  

^a National Center for Control of Rheumatic Fever and Heart Diseases   (Bangladesh)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC FEVER;

BANGLADESH; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0034967865     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947550103100320     Document Type: Article

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5. Secular trends of infectious disease mortality in the Netherlands, 1911-1978: Quantitative estimates of changes coinciding with the introduction of antibiotics