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Evaluation of streptococcal clinical scores, rapid antigen detection tests and cultures for childhood pharyngitis

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Acknowledgements

We thank the investigators C. A. Bouhanna, A. Brami-Forte, R. Cohen, V. Derks, M. Dubosc, R. Guiguet Rauna, G. Kemeny, M. Koskas, C. Lastmann, M. D. Lecompte, C. Messica, J. F. Nicolas, M. Robin, C. Romain, O. Romain, M. C. Rondeau, C. Schlemmer, G. Taïeb, A. Wollner, C. Wollner, P. D’Athis , and the Biostatistics Unit, University Hospital, Dijon.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil, 94010 , Créteil Cedex, France

    Robert Cohen

  2. Association Clinique et Thérapeutique Infantile du Val de Marne, Saint-Maur, France

    Corinne Levy, Michel Boucherat & France de La Rocque

  3. Department of Paediatrics, Créteil Hospital, Créteil, France

    Philippe Ovetchkine

  4. Department of Paediatrics, Louis Mourier Hospital, Colombes, France

    Catherine Weil-Olivier

  5. Department of Paediatrics, Jean Verdier Hospital, Bondy, France

    Joël Gaudelus

  6. Microbiology Laboratory, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France

    Edouard Bingen

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Presented in part at the 21st European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Sicily, April 2003.

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Cohen, R., Levy, C., Ovetchkine, P. et al. Evaluation of streptococcal clinical scores, rapid antigen detection tests and cultures for childhood pharyngitis. Eur J Pediatr 163, 281–282 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-004-1416-y

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