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Z Rheumatol
; 37(9-10): 304-8, 1978.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-366968
RESUMO
The results of the first part of epidemiological follow-up studies on rheumatic heart disease and streptococcal carriers in Addis-Ababa are presented. In 1012 school-children relatively low morbidity of rheumatic heart disease (0.49%) and relatively small percentage of carriers of A-beta-hemolytic streptococci (4.24%) were found. There was no statistically significant difference in the morbidity of rheumatic heart disease as well as in the percentage of streptococcal carriers between the two basic social groups--children of well-to-do and of poor parents. No correlations with overcrowding were found. Serological types 5/12/27 and 3/13/B3164 of group A-beta-hemolytic streptococci were isolated most frequently.