Division EENT-UR: Upper respiratory tract, pharyngitis, laryngitis, epiglottitis

Upper respiratory tract infections must meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Patient has at least two of the following signs or symptoms with no other recognised cause: fever (> 38 °C), erythema of pharynx, sore throat, cough, hoarseness, or purulent exudate in throat

AND at least one of the following:

• organisms cultured from the specific site

• organisms cultured from blood

• positive antigen test on blood or respiratory secretions

• diagnostic single antibody titer (IgM) or four-fold increase in paired sera (IgG) for pathogen

• physician diagnosis of an upper respiratory infection

Patient has an abscess seen on direct examination, during a surgical operation, or during a histopathologic examination