PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - E L Kaplan TI - Pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: evasive after half a century of clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory investigation AID - 10.1136/hrt.2004.034744 DP - 2005 Jan 01 TA - Heart PG - 3--4 VI - 91 IP - 1 4099 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/91/1/3.short 4100 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/91/1/3.full SO - Heart2005 Jan 01; 91 AB - 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