總結

• Acute pharyngitis is most common in school-aged children during the winter months.
• Acute onset of sore throat occurs in the absence of nasal congestion and discharge.
• Rapid antigen detection tests allow immediate point-of-care assessment of pharyngitis.
• The goal of treatment is to prevent acute rheumatic fever, reduce the severity and duration of symptoms, and prevent transmission.
• Symptom resolution is within 1 to a few days. Infected individuals are not, however, immune to reinfection.
• Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections in individuals with a history of rheumatic fever is the only situation in which an antibiotic prophylaxis is necessary.