Streptococcal acute pharyngitis

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 409-413

  Anjos, Lais Martins Moreira ^a   Marcondes, Mariana Barros ^a   Lima, Mariana Ferreira ^a   Mondelli, Alessandro Lia ^a   Okoshi, Marina Politi ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; Antigen; Penicillin; Streptococcal infection; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFALEXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN V; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHILL; COMMON COLD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; EXUDATE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAISE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PHARYNGEAL EXUDATE; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; THROAT CULTURE; TONSILLAR EXUDATE; TONSILLITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84907213062     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0265-2013     Document Type: Article

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