Recurrent streptococcal pharyngitis: Using practical treatment options to interrupt the cycle

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-222

  Ruoff, Gary E ^a  

^a Westside Family Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFACLOR; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEFIXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFPROZIL; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN ESTOLATE; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; KEFTAB; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V POTASSIUM; TROLEANDOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHARYNGITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THROAT CULTURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHARYNGITIS; RECURRENCE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0030067505     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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