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June 1963, Vol 105, No. 6 >
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ONE THROAT CULTURE BETTER THAN NONE FREE

Milton Markowitz, MD
Am J Dis Child. 1963;105(6):695. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1963.02080040697025.
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I am pleased that Dr. Field's experience with throat cultures has been rewarding, and I know that many other pediatricians have found them equally useful. Apparently Dr. Roberts disagrees. It is perfectly true that a single culture may not yield all the information one would like, but one throat culture is surely better than none.

I would agree with both correspondents that it is not possible often to isolate the causal agent from a nasopharyngeal culture in children with otitis media. However, we have seen enough infants with otitis in whom a relatively pure culture of Hemophilus influenzae or pneumococci was obtained, to suggest that this nasopharyngeal culture should not be discarded altogether. We still prefer penicillin for pneumococcal infections, but I would agree with the suggestion made by both contributors that for H. influenzae infections tetracycline is preferable to chloramphenicol as the starting drug. However, we have treated infants

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