In this podcast, Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan, the Editor-in-Chief of Heart Asia, interviews Dr Andrea Beaton about the 2015's revision of the Jones criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its major implications for practice in low-income and middle-income countries. Dr Andrea Beaton is the co-author with Jonathan Carapetis of this paper, accessible here: http://heartasia.bmj.com/content/7/2/7.full.

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The latest revision of the Jones criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever

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