Association of Kawasaki disease with tropospheric wind patterns
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Association of Kawasaki disease with tropospheric wind patterns
The causal agent of Kawasaki disease (KD) remains unknown after more than 40 years of intensive research. The number of cases continues to rise in many parts of the world and KD is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in childhood in developed countries. Analyses of the three major KD epidemics in Japan, major non-epidemic interannual fluctuations of KD cases in Japan and San Diego, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Reports
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep00152