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Sore Throat

open access: yesJournal of Special Operations Medicine, 2014
INTRODUCTION: About 10% of people present to primary healthcare services with sore throat each year. The causative organisms of sore throat may be bacteria (most commonly Streptococcus) or viruses (typically rhinovirus), although it is difficult to ...
Joshua, Banting, Tony, Meriano
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Sore throats

Accident and Emergency Nursing, 2005
This work looks at how a nurse practitioner can assess, diagnose and treat a patient that presents to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department with a sore throat. A brief look is taken at the common causes of sore throat. The reader is then introduced to a simple scoring system (McIsaac scoring) to determine whether a patient requires antibiotics to
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Sore throat after sore throat after sore throat

Postgraduate Medicine, 1997
In this discussion of recurrent group A streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis, the author notes that even at the peak of the streptococcal infection season, not more than 30% to 40% of children with sore throats actually have group A streptococci as the cause. Thus, it is vital to confirm clinical diagnosis of group A streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis with
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