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Pediatric rheumatic heart disease in the developing world: echocardiographic versus clinical screening

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boxed-textMarijon E et al. (2007) Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease detected by echocardiographic screening. N Engl J Med 357: 470–476

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  1. JR Carapetis is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician and Epidemiologist, and Director of the Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia, and Chair of the World Heart Federation Scientific Council on Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease.,

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Carapetis, J. Pediatric rheumatic heart disease in the developing world: echocardiographic versus clinical screening. Nat Rev Cardiol 5, 74–75 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1065

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