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44 children with acute tonsillitis were treated without the usual penicillin therapy. 22 children received lozenges containing Dequalinium chloride, 22 children received void lozenges under conditions of a double blind study. The results show that the treatment with Dequalinium chloride did not influence conditions caused by haemolytic streptococci -- verified by bacteriological examinations of pharyngeal smears -- inspite of its efficiency in vitro. Also general symptoms like fever, leukocytosis and rapid erythrocyte sedimentation rate were not influenced by Pequalinium chloride. Local symptoms like sore throat, tonsillar redness and exsudation were influenced beneficially. It can therefore be assumed that in cases of acute tonsillitis penicillin therapy is not necessary except in cases of streptococci infections. These should be excluded by pharyngeal smear. The medium of Liebermeister and Braveny is a very simple indicator to differentiate between tonsillitis caused by streptococci and tonsillitis of other origin.
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PMID:[Treatment of tonsillitis with dequalinium chloride]. 85 2

Respiratory infections are the most common group of diseases experienced in the community and treated by doctors. Tonsillitis and pharyngitis, sometimes referred to together as acute sore throat, are among the most common of the individual respiratory infections.
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PMID:Acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis and tonsillectomy. 88 Jan 57

A newly recognized chlamydial species, Chlamydia pneumoniae causes acute respiratory infections including pneumonia, bronchitis and pharyngitis. In this paper, eight cases of bronchitis and tonsillitis associated with C. pneumoniae are presented. Three cases came to the clinic because of persistent cough and productive sputum. C. pneumoniae was isolated from sputum of a patient and cultured in HeLa 229 cells. Other two patients were diagnosed serologically; Antibodies were measured by microimmunofluorescence using formalized elementary bodies of C. pneumoniae. A titer of 512 in the IgG class was detected. Four patients had sore throat. C. pneumoniae was isolated and cultured from tonsillar swabs in all of them. A patient with sore throat and cough diagnosed as pharyngolaryngitis was sero-positive. Antibodies to C. pneumoniae in IgG and IgM class were 128 and 32, respectively. All the patients were treated with macrolide antibiotics (erythromycin and rokitamycin), and clinical symptoms subsided. In five patients from whom the organism was isolated, the agents were eradicated by the treatment. However, clinical courses of those patients revealed that patient takes a long time to recover from the illness, if diagnosis and first choice of antimicrobial agent are not appropriate.
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PMID:[Respiratory tract diseases due to Chlamydia pneumoniae]. 204 Sep 12

The second common problem to be presented in this series is the acute sore throat. The common causes are viral pharyngitis and tonsillitis due to streptococcus pyogenes. Another important cause that warrants attention is Epstein Barr virus (infectious mononucleosis) so that prescribing of penicillins is carefully considered. The sore throat may be the presentation of serious and hidden systemic diseases, such as blood dyscrasias, AIDS and diabetes (due to moniliasis).
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PMID:Acute sore throat. 227 71

Two young men with streptococcal tonsillitis had acute myopericarditis mimicking myocardial infarction. Subsequently, 264 consecutive army conscripts hospitalized with a fever and sore throat underwent throat cultures. Group A streptococci were found in 84 patients. When these patients were systematically screened by serial electrocardiography for myocarditis, one case of probable asymptomatic myocarditis was diagnosed. None had signs of acute rheumatic fever. All three patients received penicillin therapy when the signs of myocarditis appeared. Their recovery was good.
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PMID:Streptococcal tonsillitis and acute nonrheumatic myopericarditis. 264 89

Forty patients with a history of recurrent non-beta-hemolytic streptococcal tonsillitis (RNST) participated in a prospective randomized study comparing penicillin and clindamycin in the treatment of acute non-group A streptococcal infection. The efficiency of each antibiotic was evaluated according to its ability to alleviate acute infection and prevent recurrence. Surface tonsillar cultures were obtained both before and ten days after the termination of therapy, and specimens were processed for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Beta-lactamase-producing bacteria (BLPB) were present in 36 (90%) tonsillar cultures. Thirty-one BLPB were isolated in 17 patients before penicillin therapy and 42 BLPB were recovered from 19 after such treatment. Thirty-three BLPB were recovered in 19 patients before clindamycin therapy, after which four BLPB were isolated in three patients (P less than .05). From the second day posttherapy onward, significantly fewer patients who received clindamycin had fever, pharyngeal injection, and sore throat. In a 1-year follow-up period, recurrent tonsillitis was noted in 13 of the patients who received penicillin and in two treated with clindamycin (P less than .001). The data clearly demonstrate the superiority of clindamycin therapy over penicillin in patients with RNST.
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PMID:Medical treatment of non-streptococcal recurrent tonsillitis. 276 34

Sixty patients were enrolled in a controlled randomized single-blind study to compare the efficacy and tolerability of 200 mg/day nimesulide and 300 mg/day flurbiprofen given for 7 days, in the treatment of non-infectious acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. Patients were diagnosed as follows: pharyngitis, 20 (33.4%) cases; laryngitis 11 (18.3%) cases; tonsillitis, eight (13.3%) cases; and mixed forms, 21 (35.0%) cases. Both drugs showed the same efficacy in reducing mucosal congestion, local redness, fever and sore throat. Nimesulide treatment gave rise to fewer and less severe side-effects than flurbiprofen treatment.
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PMID:Comparison of nimesulide and flurbiprofen in the treatment of non-infectious acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. 306 21

The authors investigated whether or not Chlamydia trachomatis could be isolated from tonsillar crypts in order to establish directly the relationship of the organism to the tonsillar infection. In 17 of 65 (26.2%) cases with tonsillitis, C. trachomatis was recovered from tonsillar crypts. Ten of the 17 Chlamydia-positive patients were attended for recurrent sore throat and 5 for lingering tonsillitis. Thirteen of the 17 cases had serum antibody to C. trachomatis. We also isolated this microorganism from one of 18 persons complaining of a lumpy throat. Eleven of the 18 Chlamydia-positive patients had pertinent histories of oro-genital sexual activity, and pharyngeal infection apparently resulted from direct inoculation. The available data suggest that tonsillitis, the most common problem in otorhinolaryngology, may be caused by C. trachomatis more often than has been suspected.
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PMID:Chlamydia trachomatis: a currently recognized pathogen of tonsillitis. 322 49

Weekly data for seven conditions reported to the weekly returns service of the Royal College of General Practitioners' Birmingham research unit over a 52-week period have been compared with those reported to the Oxford regional sentinel practice scheme. The mean weekly recorded rates for otitis media, asthma and intestinal infectious disease were similar in both systems; in the weekly returns service, mean weekly rates for common cold, acute bronchitis and influenza/influenza-like illness were approximately twice and for sore throat/tonsillitis slightly higher than rates in the Oxford scheme.In the weekly returns service no recommendations are made about criteria for diagnosis but in the Oxford scheme diagnostic criteria agreed by the participants are used. Where rates in both monitoring systems are the same, agreed criteria are likely to be conventional clinical practice and therefore superfluous. Where rates are different, the use of criteria enhances specificity of the information content but results in an underestimation of the total incidence of - respiratory disease presented to general practitioners.For common cold, acute bronchitis, otitis media and influenza/ influenza-like illness the associations between the rates in the two systems were high (R>/=O. 79), as might be expected, but these high values cross validate both recording systems in their monitoring of trends. For the remaining (non-epidemic) conditions the associations were low. There were no significant associations between the rates for asthma and the upper respiratory infectious diseases in either recording system, which suggests there was effective discrimination of asthma.
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PMID:Comparison between the weekly returns service and the Oxford regional sentinel practice scheme for monitoring communicable diseases. 255 50

A 38 year old woman presented with severe weakness, high fever, and sore throat. Physical examination showed follicular tonsillitis and bradycardia caused by a atrioventricular block. Within 24 hours a normal sinus rhythm was regained but slight transient ST-T changes compatible with myocarditis were evident. Throat culture grew Streptococcus haemolyticus group A.
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PMID:Atrioventricular block complicating acute streptococcal tonsillitis. 328 99


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