Eligibility criteria
Condition
Tonsillitis
Sex
Females and Males
Age
3-15 years
Inclusion criteria
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Outpatients with an acute pharyngitis erythematous or erythematopultaceous with
modification of pharynx aspect and fever of ≥38° C, and patients either with or without
spontaneous pharyngeal pain or upon swallowing and enlargement of the cervical lymph node
(mandibular area) were eligible for inclusion. All subjects should have had a positive
rapid strep test and a positive culture for Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus.
Exclusion criteria
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Patients with pseudomembranous, vesicular, ulcerous or ulceronecrotic pharyngitis were
excluded.