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cord-303807-fka9svzu	Gerber, Michael A.	Diagnosis and Treatment of Pharyngitis in Children	2005-05-28		.txt	text/plain	7181	319	37	Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) [10] , American Academy of Pediatrics [11] , and American Heart Association [12] indicate that microbiologic confirmation (with a throat culture or RADT) is required for the diagnosis of group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis. Culture of a specimen obtained by throat swab on a sheep blood agar plate is the standard laboratory procedure for the microbiologic confirmation of the clinical diagnosis of acute group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis [16] . Currently, two of the most important issues regarding the use of RADTs for the diagnosis of group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis are the relative sensitivities of the different tests and whether any RADTs are sensitive enough to mitigate against the need to perform throat cultures in patients with negative test results. In addition, without the repeat isolation of the infecting strain of GAS (ie, true bacteriologic treatment failure), it is particularly difficult to determine the clinical significance of persistent or recurrent signs or symptoms suggesting group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis.	./cache/cord-303807-fka9svzu.txt	./txt/cord-303807-fka9svzu.txt