Evaluation of poststreptococcal illness

American Family Physician

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1949-1954

  Hahn, Ricardo G ^a,f   Knox, Lynda M ^a,b,c   Forman, Todd A ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USC School of Medicine   (United States)

^c Southern California Center of Academic Excellence for Youth Violence Prevention   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Eric Cohen Student Health Center

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G;

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CARDITIS; CHOREA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTONIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHARYNGITIS; PROGNOSIS; RASH; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SKIN DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOLYSIN TITER; TIC;

EID: 18844453212     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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