Throat Culture
Cost-Effectiveness of Rapid Latex Agglutination Testing and Throat Culture for Streptococcal Pharyngitis
... the prevention of complications of streptococcal pharyngitis in patients with sore throat: (1) “treat all”-treating all patients; (2) “culture alone”- performing a throat culture on all [r] ...
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Throat culture positivity rate and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of beta hemolytic streptococci in children on secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease
... the throat [14, 16]. Therefore, we investigated the throat culture positivity rate, BHS strain types and anti- biotic susceptibility patterns and their relations to dose intervals of penicillin in ...
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Suitability of throat culture procedures for detection of group A streptococci and as reference standards for evaluation of streptococcal antigen detection kits
... To achieve maximum detection of group A streptococci, a high PVN, and a high degree of confidence in results from studies which include streptococcal cultures, those cultures negative at[r] ...
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Performance of a Rapid Antigen-Detection Test and Throat Culture in Community Pediatric Offices: Implications for Management of Pharyngitis
... of throat cultures performed in the office was significantly greater than the sensitivity of office ...BAP culture dem- onstrated relatively low sensitivity ...BAP culture, and office BAP ...
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Accuracy of a Home Throat Culture Program: A Study of Parent Participation in Health Care
... tion of the present study is that negative group 2 cultures obtained at home were not directly verified by clinic personnel. Nevertheless, the evidence in- dicates that parents are compe[r] ...
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Sensitivity of a Rapid Antigen Detection Test for Group A Streptococci in a Private Pediatric Office Setting: Answering the Red Book’s Request for Validation
... a throat culture unless the physicians have ascer- tained that the RAD test in their office is comparable to ...confirmatory throat cultures for nega- tive RAD tests were read at 24 hours and then ...
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Does Culture Confirmation of High-sensitivity Rapid Streptococcal Tests Make Sense? A Medical Decision Analysis
... confirmatory culture should be ...standard throat cultures on sheep blood agar and more sen- sitive than other rapid tests for group A strepto- ...tory throat culture in patients with negative ...
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Unusual Manifestations of Histoplasmosis in Childhood
... In the week following the onset of the rash the ESR was 45 mm/h, the throat culture did not grow streptococci and a chest radiograph showed hilar lymph node enlargement and an anterior m[r] ...
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Acute Urticaria Associated with Streptococcal Infection
... In 13 of 32 cases screened for streptococcal pharyngitis, either positive throat culture, significant streptococcal exoen-.. zyme antibodies (Streptozyme test), or both were found.[r] ...
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Rhabdomyolysis Associated With Infection byMycoplasma pneumoniae: A Case Report
... sore throat and mild abdominal ...A throat culture for Strepto- coccus pyogenes was negative, and she was treated with appropri- ate doses of acetominophen and ...
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KLEBSIELLA-AEROBACTER PNEUMONIA IN INFANTS
... Throat culture negative on admission; pure K-A in throat after 14 (las of streptomycin therapy; agglutination negative.. K-A in the throat after 17 days of.[r] ...
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Biotyping and exoenzyme profiling as an aid in the differentiation of human from bovine group G streptococci
... All six isolates of biotype 1 raffinose positive were associated with infections five throat culture isolates and 1 wound culture isolate, whereas isolates of biotypes 2, 3, 4, and 5 raf[r] ...
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<p>New-Onset of Crohn’s Disease Is Associated with Antistreptolysin O Positive Titers</p>
... Results: All participants had negative results of throat culture for GAS and had no history of documented streptococcal infection in the past year. Our results indicate that new-onset CD, but not CD in ...
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Adherence to guidelines for testing and treatment of children with pharyngitis: a retrospective study
... pharyngitis recommends that patients whose clinical presentation is consistent with GAS pharyngitis be tested with a streptococcal rapid antigen detection test (RADT) or throat culture; treatment is ...
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Update on the management of acute pharyngitis in children
... a throat culture or rapid diagnostic test for GABHS ...The culture is the gold standard for diagnosis but requires 18-24 hours of incubation at 37°C, causing a delay in identification of ...a ...
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Reliability of Transcutaneous Po2 With Roche Oxygen Monitor 5300 at 44 C in Newborn Infants With RDS
... Katz and Clancy’ on the home throat culture was well received here because of the importance of throat culture and its interpretation.. As a resident, I notice only those patients with p[r] ...
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Evaluation of Simplexa Group A Strep Direct Kit Compared to Hologic Group A Streptococcal Direct Assay for Detection of Group A Streptococcus in Throat Swabs
... patient’s throat swabs that were sequentially retrieved from continuously submitted clinical ...samples. Throat swabs were physician collected using Copan swabs in liquid Amies transport tubes (Copan ...
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NErvous System PPT MHRHE
... – Carry sensory information from the throat and tongue to the brain for interpretation – Also act in the muscles of the throat. Vagus nerves[r] ...
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Mouth and throat preparations
... and throat can either be acute or chronic and may involve infection, inflammation, irritation, pain, ulceration, trauma or fungal infections, to name a ...and throat preparations are available, from liquids ...
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Development and Evaluation of a Novel Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
... infected culture supernatant was clarified by light centrifugation at 700 ⫻ g for 10 min and stored in aliquots at ⫺80°C until ...tissue culture plates as per standard protocol ...
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