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The Recognition of Streptococcal Pharyngitis

Offering Throat Cultures as a Community Service and Its Effects Upon Office Practice

Richard H. Rapkin, M.D.

Somerset County Heart Association, New Jersey

Margaret L. Eppley, B.S.

Somerset County Heart Association, New Jersey

Streptococcal pharyngitis cannot always be recognized clinically. If the significant morbidity from rheumatic fever is to be reduced, throat cultures must be used to accurately diagnose streptococcal infections. A throat cul ture program was introduced and successfully carried out in a community. The model is presented in hopes of encouraging widespread emulation.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 10, No. 12, 706-710 (1971)
DOI: 10.1177/000992287101001212
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