Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases 2002; 35:113–25

This statement is an update of the practice guideline published in 1997 and takes into account relevant research published since that time. A major substantive change is the acceptance of negative results of rapid antigen detection testing (RADT) for exclusion of acute streptococcal pharyngitis, without the previously mandated confirmation with a negative culture result.

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