ACUTE RHEUMATIC-FEVER AND POSTSTREPTOCOCCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS IN AN OPEN POPULATION - COMPARATIVE-STUDIES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY

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dc.contributor.authorBERRIOS, X
dc.contributor.authorQUESNEY, F
dc.contributor.authorMORALES, A
dc.contributor.authorBLAZQUEZ, J
dc.contributor.authorLAGOMARSINO, E
dc.contributor.authorBISNO, AL
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T19:26:07Z
dc.date.available2025-01-23T19:26:07Z
dc.date.issued1986
dc.description.abstractWe conducted epidemiologic and bacteriologic studies of 104 cases of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and 84 cases of poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis (AGN) occurring in the southeast health district of Santiago, Chile, between March 1978, and February 1982. The AGN cases were both postpharyngeal and postpyodermol in origin. Despite the fact tht ARF and AGN were occurring in the same neighborhoods and among families of equivalent size and socioeconomic status, the pharyngeal isolation rates of group A streptococci were significantly lower among patients with ARF and their household contacts than among patients with AGN and their contacts. Moreover, the streptococcal throat colonization rates and geometric mean anti-streptolysin O titers were similar in ARF families and the families of noninfected controls. Streptococci of M-type 5, a highly rheumatogenic type, were isolated from three patients with ARF (representing 36% of group A isolates from this group) and one ARF contact but never from patients with AGN, control subjects, or their respective contacts. These observations suggest possible differences in the streptococcal milieus from which ARF and AGN cases emerge. The nature of such differences requires further exploration.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.issn0022-2143
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/99567
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:A1986F128500004
dc.issue.numero6
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final542
dc.pagina.inicio535
dc.revistaJournal of laboratory and clinical medicine
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleACUTE RHEUMATIC-FEVER AND POSTSTREPTOCOCCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS IN AN OPEN POPULATION - COMPARATIVE-STUDIES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen108
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sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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