Diagnosis and treatment of acute pharyngitis-Is there any benefit on ten-day course of antibiotics?

• Glavni autori: Catarina Oliveira Pereira (Autor), Daniela Ramos (Autor), Patrícia Mação (Autor), Gustavo Januário (Autor), Luís Januário (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Elsevier, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Introduction: In group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis, a ten-day course of amoxicillin is recommended. However, short-course treatments seem to be equally effective. The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate and compare the outcome of patients treated with 7-day course and 10-day cour...