Acute Rheumatic Fever Diagnostic Network (ARC Network) clinical recruitment protocol
The ARC Network follows Institutional Review Board protocols with local ethical approval and informed consent, and oversees clinical data and biobank use for ARF research.
Authors
- Scott J. Tebbutt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-1581)
- Robert Webb (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-4524)
- J. Francis
- Renata Fonseca Mendoza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-4694)
- Andrea Beaton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4963-355X)
- Maria Carmo Pereira Nunes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-1828)
- Nicole J. Moreland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6548-637X)
- Anna P. Ralph (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2253-5749)
- Rachel Sarnacki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9137-7476)
- Samantha Buonfiglio
- Masood Sadiq
- Ndate Fall
- Amy Sanyahumbi
- Jonathan Carapetis
- Tom Parks
- Casey P Shannon
- Craig Sable
- Asha Clare Bowen
- Christopher Gorman
- Ela Fernandes
Institutions
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (BR)
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
- Universidade do Estado da Bahia (BR)
- Ochsner Health System (US)
- Children's National (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PK)
- The Kids Research Institute Australia (AU)
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- St. Paul's Hospital (CA)
- Menzies School of Health Research (AU)
- Public Health Institute of Malawi (MW)
- National University of East Timor (TL)
- North Metropolitan Health Service (AU)
- Royal Darwin Hospital (AU)
- Starship Children's Health (NZ)
- Mayo Hospital (PK)
- Texas Children's Hospital (US)
- Imperial College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ Open
- Published
- 2026-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-114968
- Primary Topic
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00