The clinical presentation of Fusobacterium-positive and streptococcal-positive pharyngitis in a university health clinic: A cross-sectional study

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 241-247

  Centor, Robert M ^a   Atkinson, T Prescott ^b   Ratliff, Amy E ^c   Xiao, Li ^c   Crabb, Donna M ^c   Estrada, Carlos A ^a   Faircloth, Michael B ^d   Oestreich, Lisa ^d   Hatchett, Jeremy ^e   Khalife, Walid ^f   Waites, Ken B ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Diagnostic Mycoplasma Laboratory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham Stud Health and Wellness Center ^*  (United States)

^f Claire Dart Stroke Center Sparrow Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP G; THROAT CULTURE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; HEALTH SERVICE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923270928     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1305     Document Type: Article

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