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Epidemiology of rheumatic fever in the developing world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Aloyzio Achutti  and
Valderes Robinson Achutti
Aloyzio Achutti*
Affiliation:
School of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
Valderes Robinson Achutti
Affiliation:
School of Medicine of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
*
Dr. Aloyzio Achutti Avenida Bastian 212, 90 060 porto Alegre, Brazil. Tel. 55-51-233-5366; Fax. 55-51-233-5366.
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Keywords

Rheumatic heart diseasemortalityprevalencegroup A streptococcus
Type
World Forum for Pediatric Cardiology Symposium on Rheumatic Fever
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 206 - 215
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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