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Streptococcal pharyngitis in general practice. 2. A note on dual infection and transient urinary abnormalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

P. M. Higgins
P. M. Higgins
Affiliation:
Wallings, Heathfield Lane, Chistlehurst, Kent BR7 6AH, UK
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In an uncompleted study in 1965 microscopic haematuria in the second or third week after acute pharyngitis was found four times more often in patients with either microbiological or clinical evidence of dual infection with both group A streptococci and a virus than in patients with evidence only of infection with group A streptococci.

Prospective studies of the role of viruses in the aetiology of transient haematuria and of acute post streptococcal glomerulonephritis are feasible in general practice and would be most productive if concentrated in children 5–9 years of age.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 109 , Issue 2 , October 1992 , pp. 191 - 197
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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