[Epidemiology of poststreptococcal, non-suppurative, late complications, in a Moldavian area (Romania) during the last decade].

The ubiquity of the acute infections caused by the group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus (ABHS) requires the continuation of the screening strategies of the risk to develop nonsuppurative late complications. The aim of this study was to assess the poststreptococcal pathologic evolution in an area where, during the last 10 years, there were recorded high values of the morbidity due to acute infections determined by ABHS. Using methods of retrospective data collecting, in Galaţi district, during 1990-2003, they monitored the dynamics of the case incidence and general and hospitalized morbidity, according to various age and home environment categories, for acute rheumatic fever (RF), carditis (CR), and acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSG). The results emphasized the need to re-launch some targeted prevention programs, in order to lower the still high morbidity, due to these complications and, implicitly, to limit the deriving invalidity or social economical loss.