Sore throat after sore throat after sore throat Are you asking the critical questions?

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 205-225

  Pichichero, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFADROXIL; CEFPODOXIME; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHILD; CHRONIC TONSILLITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARYNGITIS; RECURRENCE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0031024809     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1997.01.150     Document Type: Article

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