Comparison of antistreptolysin O and anti-deoxyribonucleic B titers in healthy children to those with acute pharyngitis, acute rheumatic fever, and rheumatic heart disease aged 5-15 years

• Главные авторы: Navjot Saini (Автор), Dinesh Kumar (Автор), Swarnim Swarnim (Автор), Dheeraj Bhatt (Автор), Sunil Kishore (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) affects millions of children in the third world countries like India. The diagnosis of rheumatic fever is based on the Jones criteria with serological titers, antistreptolysin O titer (ASO), and anti-deoxyribonucleic B (ADB), taken as evidence of recent strept...