Population-based study of incidence and clinical characteristics of rheumatic fever in Abruzzo, Central Italy, 2000-2009

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Breda, Luciana ^a   Marzetti, Valentina ^a   Gaspari, Stefania ^a   Del Torto, Marianna ^a   Chiarelli, Francesco ^a   Altobelli, Emma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; ARF; GAS; Group A streptococcus; RHD; Rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CARDITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHOREA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY CARE; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; ONSET AGE; PHARYNGITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE;

EID: 84859885199     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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