Medscape: The guideline strongly emphasizes the need to confirm a diagnosis of GAS and not to rely on clinical suspicion. The authors then go on to list the signs and symptoms that suggest a viral or ...

Pharyngitis is an inflammation of the pharynx (throat), resulting in a sore throat. It is most often caused by a contagious virus or bacteria, but there are also noncontagious causes like acid reflux, ...

Can We Place Our Trust in 'Overt Viral Features'? It can be difficult to differentiate between viral and bacterial pharyngitis caused by group A Streptococcus (GAS), in part because of significant ...

Acute inflammation of the structures of the pharynx and tonsils, also known as tonsillopharyngitis, represents a common condition that is usually encountered in outpatients seeking healthcare ...

Physicians examined 1,159 patients for pharyngitis during two one-year periods in the Netherlands. Fifty-four percent harbored Group A streptococci in their throats; less than 18% of these were ...

ON February 11, 1954, a two-year-old girl with acute febrile rhinitis, pharyngitis and conjunctivitis was admitted to the Infectious and Parasitic Disease Service of the Clinical Center at the ...

An explosive epidemic of pharyngitis due to Group A streptococci occurred among the cadets at the United States Air Force Academy during a seven-day period in the spring of 1968. Symptoms of ...

Taking oral antibiotics for treatment of acne appears to be associated with reporting symptoms of pharyngitis, according to a new study. "Many inconsistent concerns have been voiced about the safety ...

New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that Fusobacterium necrophorum more often causes severe sore throats in young adults than streptococcus — the cause of the much ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this bimonthly column, pediatric infectious disease specialists Asif Noor, MD, FAAP, and Ulka Kothari, MD, ...

Tonsillectomy Benefits Adults With Recurrent Pharyngitis Adult patients with recurrent pharyngitis who underwent tonsillectomy had fewer symptoms of pharyngitis, thus reducing the number of medical ...

CHICAGO – Taking oral antibiotics for treatment of acne appears to be associated with reporting symptoms of pharyngitis (sore throat), according to a report published Online First by Archives of ...