The global burden of group A streptococcal diseases

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 685-694

  Carapetis, Jonathan R ^a   Steer, Andrew C ^a   Mulholland, E Kim ^a   Weber, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PHARYNGITIS; PREVALENCE; PYODERMA; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 27144468026     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(05)70267-X     Document Type: Review

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