Streptococcal Pharyngitis
Burden and Economic Cost of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... RESULTS. One hundred thirty-five parents completed interviews between October 2005 and January 2006. Older children were significantly more likely to present with headache, compared with those ⱕ 5 years of age. No ...
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Improving Guideline-Based Streptococcal Pharyngitis Testing: A Quality Improvement Initiative
... GAS pharyngitis testing and not on the basis of antibiotic prescribing or clinical ...for pharyngitis without a RADT; however, the majority of patients (>98%) who received an antibiotic prescription for ...
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Development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Children With Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... with streptococcal pharyngitis on a day-to-day ...with streptococcal pharyngitis that would enable clinicians and researchers to document more accurately improve- ment in symptoms during ...
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Rapidly progressing subperiosteal orbital abscess: an unexpected complication of a group-A streptococcal pharyngitis in a healthy young patient
... A streptococcal pharyngitis is usually a self- limited disease, and therapy can generally be safely post- poned for up to 9 days after the onset of symptoms to prevent the occurrence of major nonsuppurative ...
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Efficacy of Macrolides versus Penicillins against Streptococcal pharyngitis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
... Pharyngitis, or a sore throat, is the most common manifestation of infection with Streptococcus pyogenes. A sore throat is a frequent presenting complaint about outpatient medical visits, and infection with S. ...
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Diagnosis and Management of Group a Streptococcal Pharyngitis in the United States, 2011–2015
... a pharyngitis event between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2015, were ...identified. Streptococcal pharyngitis was defined by the presence of at least 1 claim during the study period with any ...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Rapid Latex Agglutination Testing and Throat Culture for Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... the prevention of complications of streptococcal pharyngitis in patients with sore throat: (1) “treat all”-treating all patients; (2) “culture alone”- performing a throat culture on all [r] ...
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Patient and Parent-Reported Signs and Symptoms for Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... We have demonstrated that patients and physicians demonstrate moderate agreement in their application of the modified Centor score for identifying children at low risk of GAS pharyngitis. It may be safe to apply a ...
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THE NBT TEST IN STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS
... cal pharyngitis had a positive test, more than half the patients who had beta-hemolytic streptococci isolated from throat cultures had negative NBT tests.. The test was not useful in pre[r] ...
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Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis: A Meta-analysis
... BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Effective management of group A strep- tococcal (GAS) pharyngitis is hindered by impracticality of the gold stan- dard diagnostic test: throat culture. Rapid antigen diagnostic tests ...
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Molecular and Clinical Diagnosis of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis in Children
... Detection and identification of GAS from pharyngeal swabs represent the current gold standard for the microbiological diag- nosis of GAS pharyngitis, with reported sensitivities between 90 and 95% (10, 11). ...
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Adherence to Physicians' Instructions as a Factor in Managing Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... prevents acute rheumatic fever,7’ several studies re- ported on patients’ (or parents’) adherence to treat- ment of streptococcal infections with oral penicillin preparations.. A study i[r] ...
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Spectrum Bias of a Rapid Antigen Detection Test for Group A β-Hemolytic Streptococcal Pharyngitis in a Pediatric Population
... The prevalence of GABHS infection among chil- dren with Centor scores of 0 or 1 was similar to the prevalence among asymptomatic carriers. This is not surprising, because children with low Centor scores are likely to ...
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Estimated burden of group a streptococcal pharyngitis among children in Beijing, China
... of pharyngitis oc- curred in children aged 0–14 years with about ...Although pharyngitis may seem rela- tively benign and unimportant, our study found that it caused as many as 329,370 outpatient visits ...
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Macrolide Treatment Failure in Streptococcal Pharyngitis Resulting in Acute Rheumatic Fever
... Group A Streptococcus (GAS), also known as Streptococcus pyogenes, is one of the most common pathogenic bacteria in children and causes a broad range of infections and disease states. Common infections involve the skin ...
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New Colorimetric Test for Rapid Diagnosis of Streptococcal Pharyngitis: A Warning
... PYR tests have been developed for the presumptive identification of isolated colonies of streptococci on blood agar plates.7’#{176} Most of these tests involve transferring colonies from[r] ...
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Community-wide Outbreak of Group G Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... rheumatic fever has not been described as a corn- plication of GGBHS pharyngitis, and, although there have been reports attempting to link acute glomerulonephritis with GGBHS pharyngitis[r] ...
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Evaluation of Penicillins, Cephalosporins, and Macrolides for Therapy of Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... A meta- analysis of treatment trials that compared penicillin and oral cephalosporins has been published, but this analysis is seriously flawed.9 Markowitz et al,’#{176} how- ever, caref[r] ...
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Abdominal pain and nausea in the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis in boys
... The reference standard for the primary analysis was GAS pharyngitis (ICPC-2 code, R72 Strep throat), diagnosed with a rapid test. An ancillary analysis that included a clinical diagnosis of probable GAS ...
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C-Reactive Protein in Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... Diagram showing percent of 157 patients with pharyngitis and positive culture for group A streptococci who had C-reactive protein in their sera at acute visit.. Percent of those with and[r] ...
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