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Letters |16 April 2002

Appropriate Antibiotic Use for Acute Pharyngitis

Sjoerd Zwart, MD, PhD; Alfred Sachs, MD, PhD

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  • Julius Center, University Medical Center; Utrecht 3508 GA, the Netherlands (Zwart, Sachs)
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TO THE EDITOR:
We congratulate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine for their clear position paper on antibiotic use for acute pharyngitis in adults (1). These honorable organizations found a good balance between the risks for untreated group A β-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis and the risks posed by unnecessary use of antibiotics (side effects, microbial resistance, medicalization).
To our surprise, one recommended treatment strategy appeared to be almost identical to the guidelines in the Netherlands: to refrain from any microbiological test and to...
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Zwart S, Sachs A. Appropriate Antibiotic Use for Acute Pharyngitis. Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:632–633. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-136-8-200204160-00018

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2002;136(8):632-633.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-136-8-200204160-00018

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