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Improved diagnosis of group A streptococcal pharyngitis using real-time biosurveillance
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Group A Streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis, the most common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis, causes more than half a billion cases annually worldwide. Treatment with antibiotics provides symptomatic benefit and reduces complications, missed work… read more… was restricted to nine markets with 47000 patient visits for pharyngitis, for a total of 138,910 patient … the original work is properly cited. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 P ro po rt io n P os iti ve 10 20 30 40 50 RLPP … Centor score (0.72), followed by Centor score alone (0.70), and then by RLPP alone (0.57). Conclusions …