Pharyngitis following several days of coughing or rhinorrhea is more consistent with a viral etiology. Person has been in contact with others diagnosed with GAS or rheumatic fever presenting with symptoms consistent with GAS are more likely to have GAS pharyngitis.Headache is consistent with GAS infection. Approximately 75% of patients have a cough, which is distinctive from GAS infection. 2  C pneumoniae has a clinical picture similar to that of M pneumoniae. 3  Pharyngitis usually precedes the pulmonary infection by about 1-3 weeks. 4  Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a rare cause of pharyngitis.
Definition - What does Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) mean? Payment card industry data security standard is a proprietary standard for all organizations that processes, transmit,s or stores payment cardholder data. The standard provides a framework with technologies and practices that needs to be adhered to in order to protect and secure the cardholder data.
Any company handling credit card data must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) , which sets out in rigid detail how the card information should be stored and managed in order to keep it safe. The reality of PCI DSS compliance, however, is slightly more malleable.Despite the efforts of the big card brands -- notably Visa and MasterCard -- to push compliance with the standard, compliance progress amongst UK merchants has been generally quite slow, with many still seeing compliance as a distant goal.n a new article, published exclusively on SearchSecurity.co.UK, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) -- What it is and its impact on retail merchants (see .pdf below), Martin Bradley and Alexander Dent detail their own research amongst some of the UK's largest merchants.