Hi Toby
> starting penicillin if it was bacterial! I seem to remember reading not
> long ago that oral antibiotics were no more effective than placebo in
> clearing up sore throats with a a positive culture for group A strep
> (I'm too knackered at the moment to look up the reference so you'll have
> to take my word for it).
I must have missed this reference myself - does anyone know it?
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