The Centor criteria are a set of clinical findings that, taken together, may be used as an aid in making the diagnosis of Group A β-haemolytic streptococcus as a cause of a sore throat or tonsillitis.
Tonsillitis is a common reason for visits to the doctor and prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care. To determine whether a patient needs antibiotics, doctors use the so-called Centor Criteria ...
Centor, professor emeritus in the Department of Medicine and longtime associate dean for the School of Medicine's Huntsville Regional Medical Campus, is one of the world's leading experts on sore ...
Tonsillitis is a common reason for visits to the doctor and prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care. To determine whether a patient needs antibiotics, doctors use the so-called Centor Criteria ...
The Centor criteria are a set of clinical findings that, taken together, may be used as an aid in making the diagnosis of Group A β-haemolytic streptococcus as a cause of a sore throat or tonsillitis.
New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that Fusobacterium necrophorum more often causes severe sore throats in young adults than streptococcus — the cause of the much ...