TAKE HOME MESSAGE Acute pharyngitis is one of the most common complaints that a physician encounters in the ambulatory care setting, accounting for 1% to 2% of all ambulatory care visits annually and a high antibiotic prescribing rate. However, the majority of these cases is viral and is self-limiting even in cases caused by bacteria...

Fig: PharyngotonsillitisTAKE-HOME MESSAGE It is important to optimize existing antibiotics in view of increasing antimicrobial resistance and paucity of new drugs in this class. One of the most common infections treated by primary care physicians is pharyngotonsillitis, and it is associated with a significant proportion of...