TABLE 3.
Aetiologic agents in relation to the background characteristics of the patients
| Patients n |
Background data of the patients (percent) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woman | Smoker | Often has a sore throat | Prolonged sore throat | Previous tonsillectomy | Treated with antibiotics the last 3 months | ||
| No pathogen | 65 | 63 | 16 | 29 | 44 | 12 | 6 |
| Only viruses | 52 | 65 | 14 | 48 | 29 | 16 | 12 |
| Only bacteria | 85 | 68 | 13 | 28 | 26 | 13 | 9 |
| GAS (only) | 46 | 70 | 4 | 22 | 30 | 17 | 7 |
| Fusobacterium necrophorum (only) | 14 | 74 | 46 | 43 | 36 | 7 | 23 |
| Influenza B (only) | 13 | 69 | 0 | 50 | 15 | 17 | 8 |
GAS, Group A streptococci.