Adolescent pharyngitis: A review of bacterial causes

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1091-1095

  Mitchell, Michael S ^a   Sorrentino, Annalise ^a   Centor, Robert M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BACTERIUM; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHARYNGITIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TONSIL HYPERTROPHY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 82355183645     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922811409571     Document Type: Review

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