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Streptococcus pyogenes and postinfectious disease
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A 10-year-old child has fever, painful swallowing, tonsillar exudates, and tender anterior cervical nodes without cough. A throat isolate is a gram-positive coccus in chains. It is catalase negative, produces a clear zone around colonies on blood agar, and is PYR positive.