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  • Title: [Acute tonsillitis: towards a new therapeutic strategy].
    Author: Ovetchkine P.
    Journal: Arch Pediatr; 1998 Jun; 5(6):679-80. PubMed ID: 9759216.
    Abstract:
    There is a need for revising the current practice for treatment of acute tonsillitis in France, i.e., systematic antibiotic treatment. There are three main reasons for this revision: 1) group A betahemolytic streptococcus is involved in only 20% of acute tonsillitis (80% being viral); 2) rheumatic fever has become very rare; 3) efficient rapid diagnostic tests are now available, allowing a selection of patients with streptococcal tonsillitis who must be treated.
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