Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC)
Beta Haemolytic Streptococcal (BHS)infections and their sequelae Rheumatic Fever (RF)and Glomerulonephritis (GN)have a world wide distribution and so pose an important health problem. Reports show that there is considerable variation in the number of isolations from different groups. Present study intended to find outthe health status of the school children in relation to streptococcal throat infection, in Dhaka Cantonment. Itwas a cross sectional, observational study. During one year period total six hundren and one (601)children were examined fromone school of DhakaCantonment. Pre”alence of streptococcus was found to be 22% among the study population wit…