TABLE 4.

The potential pathogens significantly associated with disease (i.e. only bacteria, only viruses, GAS, Fusobacterium necrophorum and influenza B virus) in relation to Centor score, symptoms and signs

	Patients n	Symptoms and signs in the patients (%)				Centor score (%)
		No cough	Fever	Lymphadenitis	Tonsillar coating	0	1	2	3	4
No pathogen	65	59	43	52	28	11	37	28	14	11
Only viruses	52	33	64	62	30	10	27	38	19	6
Only bacteria	85	79	67	69	57	4	9	31	33	24
GAS (only)	46	87	76	73	60	2	9	22	37	30
Fusobacterium necrophorum (only)	14	64	50	57	74	0	7	57	21	14
Influenza B (only)	13	8	92	69	33	8	15	54	23	0

GAS, Group A streptococci.