Rheumatic Fever In Indigenous Australian Children

Rheumatic Fever In Indigenous Australian Children Matthew G Parnaby, and Jonathan R Carapetis, 2010   Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) caused by acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a disease of poverty, poor hygiene and poor living standards. RHD remains one of the major causes of childhood cardiac disease in developing nations. Within developed nations, there has been a dramatic drop in the prevalence of RHD because of the improvement of living standards, access to health care and the widespread...

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