Once-daily amoxicillin for Group A Streptococcal (GAS) sore throat as the other first-line option: A clarification of the NZ sore throat guidelines

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 1338, 2011, Pages 116-119

  Lennon, Diana ^a   Kerdemelidis, Melissa ^b   Arroll, Bruce ^c   Sharpe, Norman ^d  

^a STARSHIP CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b University of Auckland ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d National Heart Foundation of New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN V;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COUGHING; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG ERUPTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EYELID EDEMA; FEVER; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHINITIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SORE THROAT; SPLENOMEGALY; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AMOXICILLIN; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 79960327500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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