A sore throat in a dialysis patient

Sore throat.

INTRODUCTION About 10-30% of people present to primary healthcare services with sore throat each year. The causative organisms of sore throat may be bacteria (most commonly Streptococcus) or viruses (typically rhinovirus), although it is difficult to distinguish bacterial from viral infections clinically. METHODS AND OUTCOMES We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following ...

Sore throat in primary care project: a clinical score to diagnose viral sore throat.

OBJECTIVE Viral agents cause the majority of sore throats. However, there is not currently a score to diagnose viral sore throat. The aims of this study were (i) to find the rate of bacterial and viral causes, (ii) to show the seasonal variations and (iii) to form a new scoring system to diagnose viral sore throat. METHODS A throat culture for group A beta haemolytic streptococci (GABHS) and ...

A sore throat with a difference.

British Journal of Venereal Diseases SIR-Infectious mononucleosis commonly occurs in young people (Pollock, 1969) but curiously it is rarely diagnosed together with gonorrhoea in the same individual. Recently such a case was seen with a number of interesting features. A 24-year-old white male presented on April 8, 1975, complaining of swelling of the cervical lymph nodes for 2 days and feeling ...

Avoiding sore throat morbidity and mortality: when is it not "just a sore throat?".

Sore throat consistently ranks in the top 10 reasons for ambulatory care visits. We see this symptom so often that our vocabulary even includes the phrase “just a sore throat.” For more than 50 years, physicians have considered group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus the only important cause of sore throat, because it can lead to acute rheumatic fever. Although we know that other organisms can als...

A Boy With Fever And Sore Throat