Journal article
Prevalence and susceptibility profiles of group a streptococcus in primary care patients with a sore throat and fever in Thailand and the utility of C-Reactive protein and clinical scores for its identification
- Abstract:
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Pharyngitis is usually caused by a viral infection for which antibiotics are often unnecessarily prescribed, adding to the burden of antimicrobial resistance. Identifying who needs antibiotics is challenging; microbiological confirmation and clinical scores are used but have limitations. In a cross-sectional study nested within a randomized controlled trial, we estimated the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility profiles of group A Streptococcus (GAS) in patients presenting to primary care...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Journal website
- Volume:
- 102
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 377-383
- Publication date:
- 2019-12-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-11
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-1645
- ISSN:
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0002-9637
- Source identifiers:
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1080688
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- English
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pubs:1080688
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- pubs:1080688
- Deposit date:
- 2020-01-02
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- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Open Access: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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