McDonald, Malcolm I

Low rates of streptococcal pharyngitis and high rates of pyoderma in Australian aboriginal communities where acute rheumatic fever is hyperendemic. [electronic resource] - Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Sep 2006 - 683-9 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

1537-6591

10.1086/506938 doi


Adolescent
Adult
Australia--epidemiology
Carrier State
Child
Child, Preschool
Crowding
Endemic Diseases
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Pharyngitis--ethnology
Pharynx--microbiology
Prospective Studies
Pyoderma--complications
Rheumatic Fever--complications
Risk Factors
Seasons
Streptococcal Infections--ethnology
Streptococcus--isolation & purification