Acute rheumatic fever: a chink in the chain that links the heart to the throat?
- 1 April 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 4 (4), 240-245
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(04)00975-2
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