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Only 30 or 40 years ago, rheumatic fever was a common topic in the Journal. A PubMed search for articles on rheumatic fever published between 1967 and 1976 returned 55 New England Journal of Medicine articles — fewer than for endocarditis (77) but more than for stroke and syphilis (24 entries each). A similar PubMed search for the decade 1997 through 2006 yielded just eight entries for rheumatic fever. This trend holds for all Medline-indexed journals: an average of 516 articles on rheumatic fever per year from 1967 through 1976, but only 172 per year from 1997 through 2006. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Carapetis is the director of the Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Rheumatic Heart Disease in Developing Countries
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N Engl J Med 2007; 357:2089, Nov 15, 2007. Correspondence

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