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Rheumatic heart disease and its control in the Pacific

Samantha M Colquhoun Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia and Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Jonathan R Carapetis Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
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Joseph H Kado Fiji Ministry of Health, Suva, Fiji
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Andrew C Steer Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia and Division of Infectious and Immunologic Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [email protected]
Pages 1517-1524 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014

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