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Adequate resources are needed for maintenance of data quality in acute rheumatic fever/ rheumatic heart disease registers to ensure provision of evidence-based care and accurate assessment of program impact.
We estimated the global disease prevalence of and mortality due to rheumatic heart disease over a 25-year period
A directed approach to the differential diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever now includes the concept of low-risk versus medium-to-high risk populations
After brief training, health workers with no prior experience in echocardiography can obtain adequate quality images and make a reliable assessment
Vaccines against Streptococcus pyogenes are considered as impeded vaccines because of a number of crucial barriers to development
This study adds to emerging data suggesting increasing importance of iGAS in low- and middle-income settings globally.
Rheumatic fever (RF) prevention, control and surveillance are increasingly important priorities in New Zealand (NZ) and Australia.
Improved opportunities for the primary prevention of ARF now exist, because of point-of-care antigen tests for Streptococcus pyogenes, and clinical decision...
ARF is a classical example of an autoimmune syndrome and is of particular immunological interest because it follows a known antecedent infection with group A...
The prevalence of echocardiographically diagnosed RHD in adults in New Caledonia is estimated at 5.9 per 1000