Diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis: Differentiation of active infection from the carrier state in the symptomatic child

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 1971, Pages 490-501

  Kaplan, Edward L ^a   Top, Franklin H ^a,b   Dudding, Burton A ^a,b   Wannamaker, Lewis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NOSE; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHINITIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; NOSE; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHINITIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0015055315     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/123.5.490     Document Type: Article

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