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Too often antibiotics, remarkable therapies that can cure deadly and disabling infections, are used to satisfy patients' needs rather than out of clinical necessity. This practice translates into the excessive use of antibiotics for acute respiratory tract infections everywhere in the world, including the United States.¹

Group A streptococcus is a common bacterial pathogen that causes tonsillitis and skin infections, such as erysipelas and impetigo, as well as serious, life-threatening septic infections and suppurative and nonsuppurative complications. The macrolide antibiotics, such as erythromycin, azithromycin, clarithromycin, and roxithromycin, are usually effective against these streptococci and are commonly used in the treatment . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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