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like on paper it makes sense, because Group A Strep is generally susceptible to beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillin, or amoxicillin-- but studies show that taking antibiotics for strep only makes patients return to normal health 24 hours quicker (according to the lectures I got/research I've been exposed to). For this reason, people ask why the extra 24 hours even matters-- the answer is that it wouldn't, if it wasn't for rheumatic fever.

Hmm, what you're saying doesn't correlate with my own experience.

1984, I'm working as a technician in a large aerospace lab with 80 other techs doing shift work. I came down with strep, went to a doctor, took antibiotics, got well, then 3 weeks later I get it again. I got strep 3 times in 4 months, each time going to the doctor to get antibiotics -- and yes, took each prescription for the required 10 days. Then one night I heard a co-worker talking about how crummy she'd been feeling since Thanksgiving (it was now late April), so she finally went to a doctor and found out she had strep. She took the prescription and voila, no more strep for her and I quit having relapses. (And I haven't had another case of strep since.)

If you don't need antibiotics to treat strep, then why was my co-worker a carrier for five damn months?