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How can you know if after child took antibiotics for 10 days that all of the bacteria from scarlet fever is gone. when to follow up with doctor?
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Follow up culture: You can go for a repeat culture two weeks after onset of scarlet fever.
Answered 11/27/2017
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Not usually necesary: Universal sensitivity to penicillin and penicillin related antibiotics makes the routine followup of scarlet fever unnecessary in most cases. Persistence of this erythrotoxin producing germ would be easily identified by a return of the rash and symptoms. Followup culture would only be recommended for recurrent symptomatic illness, .
Answered 1/17/2014
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