Avoiding sore throat morbidity and mortality: When is it not "just a sore throat?"

American Family Physician

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-28

  Centor, Robert M ^a   Samlowski, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTION; HUMAN; LEMIERRE SYNDROME; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SYMPTOM; THROAT CULTURE;

EID: 79956348269     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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