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To see if you MIGHT benefit from antibiotics please enter the following data and click on the button.See if the page background changes if you have three or more of the criteria which may mean antibiotics will help

	Have you been having a temperature?	No Yes
	Have you been having a cough?	No Yes
	Have you got swollen tender anterior neck nodes (glands at the top of the neck)?	No Yes
	Have you got an exudate(white patches) on your tonsils?	No Yes

To read about the scientific basis of this test and the Centor criteria used in this questionnaire there are two links below.

	To read about the Centor criteria
	To read about the value of antibiotics in those with three or more Centor criteria in adults
	To read about the role of antibiotics in those with two or more Centor criteria in children