Clinical predictors and antibiotics sensitivity of bacterial pathogens of pharyngotonsillitis among children aged 1-17 years in a Tertiary Hospital, Abakaliki, Southeast, Nigeria

an overlap observed between the clinical presentations of the participants with positive throat culture and those without in this study makes clinical features unreliable in predicting pharyngotonsillitis of bacterial origin. Hence routine throat swab for bacteriology culture should be done for all children presenting with features suggestive of pharyngotonsillitis before commencement of antibiotics. However, where such services are not readily available, the use of cephalosporins empirically is recommended.