Scarlet fever: A not so typical exanthematous pharyngotonsillitis (based on 171 cases).

CONCLUSION: Scarlet fever pharyngotonsillitis differs from the traditional streptococcal pharyngotonsillitis, and its evaluation using clinical prediction rules such as Centor or McIsaac is questionable. The main diagnostic key must certainly be rash, regardless of patient age. PMID: 26585817 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica - Category: Microbiology Tags: Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin Source Type: research