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The dose is 250 mg three times a day for ten days. Incomplete dose may land up in rheumatic fever.

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Most of the patients recover from strep throat with in three days. Some of them become carrier of streptococcus pyogenes in there throat. Few of such carriers gets, rheumatic fever. So in case of rheumatic fever, almost always, you are able to isolate the streptococcus pyogenes, from the throat of the patient. ASO titre is also raised to indicate the recent infection. You can declare the patient as cured, when he has received the last dose of penicillin V on tenth day.