TY - JOUR T1 - A 5-day course of penicillin V may be an effective treatment for streptococcal pharyngitis JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 319 LP - 319 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318740 VL - 106 IS - 5 AU - Stacy Wightman Y1 - 2021/10/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/106/5/319.abstract N2 - Review of: Skoog Ståhlgren G, Tyrstrup M, Edlund C, et al. Penicillin V four times daily for five days versus three times daily for 10 days in patients with pharyngotonsillitis caused by group A streptococci: randomised controlled, open label, non-inferiority study. BMJ 2019;367:l5337.Open label, randomised controlled non-inferiority study. Allocation: central randomisation by computerised random number generator. Setting: 17 primary health centres in Sweden. Intervention: randomised to either Penicillin V 800mg four times per day for 5 days (total 16g) or Penicillin V 1000mg three times per day for 10 days. (total 30g). Patients: 422 patients, aged 6 years and older with pharyngotonsillitis caused by group A streptococci and with three … ER -