The epidemiology of acute rheumatic fever in Indigenous people in north Queensland

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 313-317

  Hanna, Jeffrey N ^a   Heazlewood, Richard J ^b  

^a TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT   (Australia)

^b CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARDITIS; CHILD; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONARTHRITIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THROAT CULTURE;

EID: 27944463161     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.tb00199.x     Document Type: Review

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