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The trial was conducted between February 2016 and April 2022 at primary care offices affiliated with 6 US institutions and was designed to evaluate whether symptom burden differed in subgroups defined by nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae<\/jats:italic>, or Moraxella catarrhalis<\/jats:italic> on bacterial culture and by the presence of colored nasal discharge.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Interventions<\/jats:title>Oral amoxicillin (90 mg\/kg\/d) and clavulanate (6.4 mg\/kg\/d) (n\u2009=\u2009254) or placebo (n\u2009=\u2009256) for 10 days.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>The primary outcome was symptom burden based on daily symptom scores on a validated scale (range, 0-40) during the 10 days after diagnosis. Secondary outcomes included treatment failure, adverse events including clinically significant diarrhea, and resource use by families.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Most of the 510 included children were aged 2 to 5 years (64%), male (54%), White (52%), and not Hispanic (89%). The mean symptom scores were significantly lower in children in the amoxicillin and clavulanate group (9.04 [95% CI, 8.71 to 9.37]) compared with those in the placebo group (10.60 [95% CI, 10.27 to 10.93]) (between-group difference, \u22121.69 [95% CI, \u22122.07 to \u22121.31]). The length of time to symptom resolution was significantly lower for children in the antibiotic group (7.0 days) than in the placebo group (9.0 days) (P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.003). Children without nasopharyngeal pathogens detected did not benefit from antibiotic treatment as much as those with pathogens detected; the between-group difference in mean symptom scores was \u22120.88 (95% CI, \u22121.63 to \u22120.12) in those without pathogens detected compared with \u22121.95 (95% CI, \u22122.40 to \u22121.51) in those with pathogens detected. Efficacy did not differ significantly according to whether colored nasal discharge was present (the between-group difference was \u22121.62 [95% CI, \u22122.09 to \u22121.16] for colored nasal discharge vs \u22121.70 [95% CI, \u22122.38 to \u22121.03] for clear nasal discharge; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.52 for the interaction between treatment group and the presence of colored nasal discharge).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions<\/jats:title>In children with acute sinusitis, antibiotic treatment had minimal benefit for those without nasopharyngeal bacterial pathogens on presentation, and its effects did not depend on the color of nasal discharge. 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