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- Title
Where Has All the Rheumatic Fever Gone?
- Authors
Bisno, Alan L.
- Abstract
Comments on why acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is disappearing from the affluent neighborhoods of suburban America. Contribution of the socioeconomic mobility to the decrease in ARF incidence; Identification of the change in the rheumatogenic potential of currently prevalent group A streptococci as a major factor in the decline in ARF incidence; Controversy over the use of throat culture.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RHEUMATIC fever; COLLAGEN diseases; STREPTOCOCCAL diseases; EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 1983, Vol 22, Issue 12, p804
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000992288302201203