Rheumatic fever in Aboriginal children

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 223-225

  Currie, B J ^a   Brewster, D R ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G;

ABORIGINE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; AUSTRALIA; CARDITIS; CHOREA; DEATH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEDIATRICS; POLYARTHRITIS; PR INTERVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0036272665     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1754.2002.00850.x     Document Type: Editorial

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