Abstract
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Serum sickness like reaction, acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and Kawasaki disease are important differential diagnoses of fever and rash in children
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Acute carditis of ARF often responds dramatically to high dose salicylate therapy
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When there is evidence of severe carditis, corticosteroids are indicated
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Kianiamin, M. (2020). Fever and Urticarial Rash. In: Rahmani, F., Rezaei, N. (eds) Pediatric Autoimmunity and Transplantation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26280-8_6
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