The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

Clinical Practice Guidelines

Sore throat

PIC Endorsed
Reference List

Australian Medicines Handbook, Children’s Dosing Companion

Electronic Therapeutic Guidelines, Sore throat, https://tgldcdp.tg.org.au.acs.hcn.com.au/viewTopic?etgAccess=true&guidelinePage=Antibiotic&topicfile=sore-throat&guidelinename=Antibiotic&sectionId=toc_d1e379#toc_d1e379

Guy R et al. Increase in invasive group A streptococcal infection notifications, England 2022. Euro Surveill. 2023. 28 (1). Retrieved from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36695450/

Mercadante S et al. The Thousand Faces of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections: Update on Epidemiology, Symptoms, and Therapy. Children (Basel). 2024. 22;11(4). Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11048970/

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Spurling et al. Immediate versus delayed versus no antibiotics for respiratory infections. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2023. 10 (10). Retrieved from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37791590/

The 2020 Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. RHD Australia. 2022. 3.2. Retrieved from https://www.rhdaustralia.org.au/system/files/fileuploads/arf_rhd_guidelines_3.2_edition_march_2022.pdf