Kaplan and Johnson, in their article in the November 2001 issue of Pediatrics, claim that oral penicillin V and intramuscular benzathine penicillin G (BPG) have an unacceptably high rate of "microbiologic treatment failures." My problem with their article is that I feel the endpoint, that of "microbiologic treatment failures," is poorly chosen. The correct endpoint should be
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