Aso Titer Rheumatic Fever
Globally there is wide variation in streptococcal titer upper limits of normal ULN for antistreptolysin O ASO and anti-deoxyribonuclease B ADB used as an evidence of recent group A streptococcal infection to diagnose acute rheumatic fever ARF. An ASO titer is done to find out if you have a current or recent strep infection that may have caused these health problems. Rheumatic Fever Pharyngitis Arthritis OBJECTIVES--The purpose of this study was to analyse retrospectively adult patients with acute joint or muscle symptoms and a high antistreptolysin O ASO titre to find out which syndromes of clinical arthritis are associated with serological evidence of streptococcal infection. Aso titer rheumatic fever . In this study 660 children aged 92 17 years were recruited consecutively and classified as. The diagnosis of rheumatic fever is based on the Jones criteria with serological titers antistreptolysin O titer ASO and anti-deoxyribonucleic B ADB taken as evidence of recent streptococci ...