pharyngitis

Examples

• All

• The Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Heart Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend antibiotic treatment of acute pharyngitis only for those patients with positive GABHS cultures.

  Academic text (2010)

• Among children and adolescents, GABHS affects between 15% and 30% of those with pharyngitis.

  Academic text (2010)

• Otherwise, pharyngitis might be missed in those patients who have few colonies of GABHS in their pharynx.

  Academic text (2010)

• The standard dose for streptococcal pharyngitis is 150 mg every six hours for ten days.

  Academic text (1995)

• Therefore, a more precise and rapid method of diagnosing GABHS pharyngitis is desirable.

  Academic text (2010)

• Noncompliant patients with streptococcal pharyngitis are at risk for rheumatic fever.

  Academic text (1995)

• Tonsillectomy has been shown to be quite effective in reducing the clinical burden of chronic tonsillitis and pharyngitis in adults.

  Academic text (2001)

• The Centor criteria were developed to estimate the probability of acute GABHS pharyngitis in newly presenting patients.

  Academic text (2010)

• Most cases of bacterial pharyngitis are caused by group A beta-hemolytic streptococci (GABHS).

  Academic text (2010)

• After experiencing a sore throat and difficulty swallowing, she was diagnosed with pharyngitis by her doctor.

Synonyms

T

throat infection

vspharyngitis

• Specialized

1 2.3

Illness in the throat that makes it sore and hard to swallow

is inflammation of the pharynx not always caused by pathogens

How Severe

pharyngitis

• Specialized

7.0

sore throat

27 1.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology