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Editorial
Pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: evasive after half a century of clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory investigation
  1. E L Kaplan
  1. Correspondence to:
    Professor Edward L Kaplan
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; kapla001umn.edu

Abstract

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease continue to be a problem for medical and public health communities—the fact that penicillin has failed to eradicate this disease process is irrefutable proof of the need for more laboratory, epidemiological, and clinical research

  • rheumatic fever
  • rheumatic heart disease

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2004.034744

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