Primary care: Acute pharyngitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 205-211

  Bisno, Alan L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFDINIR; CEFIXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPHTHERIA ANTIBODY; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN ESTOLATE; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; ERYTHROMYCIN STEARATE; MACROLIDE; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROAT CULTURE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIPHTHERIA; HUMANS; PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0035905930     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200101183440308     Document Type: Review

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