Diagnosis and treatment of streptococcal pharyngitis

American Family Physician

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 383-390

  Choby, Beth A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UT Family Practice Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN PLUS PROCAINE; BICILLIN C R; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN ESTOLATE; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V POTASSIUM; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SURGICAL RISK; THROAT CULTURE; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; VIRAL PHARYNGITIS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEPHRITIS; PHARYNGITIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; NEPHRITIS; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RHEUMATIC FEVER; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 64249099241     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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