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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… the percent of patients who tested positive for GAS for all combinations of Centor score and RLPP. Using standard … patients with Centor scores of 1–4, represented by the top 4 lines in the figure below, the percent of patients …