Viral or bacterial?
The presumptive diagnosis in the article is bacterial. Thank you for the previous citations, but I was thinking of the USA where there is a lot of resistance to beta lactam antibiotics. Replicating their results in this country with amoxicillin only, i.e. not as Augmentin which is amoxicillin plus clavulanate, would be surprising to more than just me, IMHO.