http://www.medrants.com/archives/5073 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.medrants.com/archives/5073/comment-page-1#comment-530687 Moises Auron Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:03:10 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=5073#comment-530687 Actually in Pediatrics, the American Board of Pediatrics have been giving a lot of importance to Arcanobaterium hemolyticum as an important culprit of tonsilopharyngitis in adolescents. The importance of it is that it is not sensitive to betalactams but to macrolides. Today in my Pediatrics rounds at the CCF Children's hospital we saw 2 teenagers with acute tonsilopharyngitis; it was an interesting discussion and I pulled your article from Annals to discuss about Fusobacterium necrophorum and Lemierres', as well as the Up To Date(surprisingly didn't mention F. necrophorum). Interesting discussion as this as said is an entity that cause significant discomfort and poor quality of life. We discussed then the complication of streptococcal infections, including PANDAS and post-streptococcal GMN. It was a nice round! Actually in Pediatrics, the American Board of Pediatrics have been giving a lot of importance to Arcanobaterium hemolyticum as an important culprit of tonsilopharyngitis in adolescents.
The importance of it is that it is not sensitive to betalactams but to macrolides.
Today in my Pediatrics rounds at the CCF Children's hospital we saw 2 teenagers with acute tonsilopharyngitis; it was an interesting discussion and I pulled your article from Annals to discuss about Fusobacterium necrophorum and Lemierres', as well as the Up To Date(surprisingly didn't mention F. necrophorum).
Interesting discussion as this as said is an entity that cause significant discomfort and poor quality of life. We discussed then the complication of streptococcal infections, including PANDAS and post-streptococcal GMN. It was a nice round!

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