id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-320828-5ksho1bh Narchi, Hassib Nasopharyngeal Isolates from a Cohort of Medical Students with or without Pharyngitis 2020-10-05 .txt text/plain 3398 205 55 Overall, the most common isolates were human rhinovirus, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, with no significant differences in terms of gender, year of study or stage of study. necrophorum were not detected among students with symptoms of pharyngitis; moreover, Centor scores of ≥2 were not associated with the presence of S. 15 Therefore, this study aimed to elucidate patterns of nasopharyngeal colonisation in a cohort of medical students with or without symptoms of pharyngitis, evaluate the performance of the Centor score in the diagnosis of S. pyogenes-positive samples were isolated from students with Centor scores of ≤2 (P = 1.000). influenzae was also very unlikely to have been a major cause of pharyngitis in the current study, given the lack of significant difference in its detection rate between symptomatic and asymptomatic participants. 16, 22 The PCR results of another study indicated that 10.3% of symptomatic patients and 1.1% of asymptomatic medical students were positive for S. ./cache/cord-320828-5ksho1bh.txt ./txt/cord-320828-5ksho1bh.txt