Question 8 (part 2) · LEK · Acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis
The first-line treatment of acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis caused by Streptococcus pyogenes is the use of:
- A. tetracycline orally.
- B. amoxicillin intravenously.
- C. macrolides.
- D. inhaled glucocorticoids.
- E. phenoxymethylpenicillin orally.
Hint
Group A streptococcus has never developed resistance to the narrowest classic drug; think of the oral penicillin.
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