Multicenter, Open, Randomized Comparative Trial To Compare The Efficacy Of Azithromycin Versus Amoxicillin In Children With Strep Throat

Inclusion Criteria: Outpatients with an acute pharyngitis erythematous or erythematopultaceous with modification of pharynx aspect and fever of ≥38° C, and patients either with or without spontaneous pharyngeal pain or upon swallowing and enlargement of the cervical lymph node (mandibular area) were eligible for inclusion. All subjects should have had a positive rapid strep test and a positive culture for Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus. Exclusion Criteria: Patients with pseudomembranous, vesicular, ulcerous or ulceronecrotic pharyngitis were excluded.