Update on acute rheumatic fever: It still exists in remote communities

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 475-478

  Madden, Sharen ^a   Kelly, Len ^a  

^a NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; STEROID;

ARTHRALGIA; CHOREA; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MORBIDITY; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ONTARIO; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER;

EID: 65949101648     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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