Throat samples were collected in duplicates at primary health care centers (PHCCs) from patients with symptoms of pharyngitis. The performance of QuickVue Dipstick Strep A test (307 samples) and DIAQUICK Strep A Blue Dipstick (348 samples) was evaluated using culture results at a clinical ...
A precise diagnostic test for detection of Group AStreptococcus(GAS) from throat swab specimens Catalog #: 410400 Contact Sales Support & Documents Why Revogene Strep A? The Revogene Strep A assay is for the direct detection ofStreptococcus pyogenes(Group A β-hemolyticStreptococcus; GAS) ...
Mitral stenosis will not occur if rheumatic fever is prevented by promptly treating strep throat with antibiotics. (In high-resource countries, mitral stenosis occurs mostly in older people who had rheumatic fever and who did not have the benefit of antibiotics during their youth or ...
The smear test is horribly unreliable – even if you were that one-in-a-million case, there is no guarantee that the test will help you, but there is a high chance the test will pick up harmless changes and lead you into unnecessary medical procedures. The bottom line is that screening ...