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Streptococcal Serology in Acute Rheumatic Fever Patients Findings From 2 High-income, High-burden Settings.

Abstract

Globally, there is wide variation in streptococcal titer upper limits of normal (ULN) for antistreptolysin O (ASO) and anti-deoxyribonuclease B (ADB) used as an evidence of recent group A streptococcal infection to diagnose acute rheumatic fever (ARF).

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