Fig 1.
Article grouping system.
Fig 2.
Results of literature search and study selection.
Table 1.
Prevalence of GAS culture-positive pharyngitis by age group, recruitment strategy and setting.
Fig 3.
The relationship between different manifestations of pharyngeal GAS in OECD and non-OECD countries and active and passive recruitment settings (3A) and restricted to OECD countries in passive recruitment settings (3B).
Table 2.
Total unequivocal serologically-confirmed GAS pharyngitis prevalence by age group, recruitment strategy and setting, including where GAS culture positive swabs were obtained.
Table 3.
The prevalence of GAS carriage by age group, recruitment strategy and setting.