A rapid strep test and/or a throat culture is used to diagnose group A strep as the cause of symptoms so your health care practitioner can prescribe the proper antibiotics for treatment. Common Questions How is the test used? Strep tests are used to determine whether your sore throat is s...
该检查医生会对我们的喉咙拭子样本进行快速抗原检测,通过检测喉咙中的抗原,可以在几分钟内发现链球菌细菌。如果检测呈阴性,医生依旧怀疑链球菌感染,可能会做进一步的细菌培养。 2. 分子检测(polymerase chain reaction, or PCR) 该检测也是...
Dr Willis addresses some important questions regarding the old versus new methods of strep testing.doi:10.1080/00325481.1990.11704758WillisStephen E.Taylor & FrancisPostgraduate MedicineWillis SE. Throat culture or rapid strep test? Postgraduate medicine - Strep testing, 1990; 88(4): 111-114....
该检查医生会对我们的喉咙拭子样本进行快速抗原检测,通过检测喉咙中的抗原,可以在几分钟内发现链球菌细菌。如果检测呈阴性,医生依旧怀疑链球菌感染,可能会做进一步的细菌培养。 2. 分子检测(polymerase chain reaction, or PCR) 该检测也是通过培养来自喉咙的拭子样本的结果,进行诊断。 3. 咽拭子培养(Throat culture)...
Throat culture.The doctor will rub a swab over the throat and tonsils to be sent to the lab. If you or your child has strep throat, the streptococci bacteria will grow in it. It usually takes about 2 days to get results from a throat culture. It can confirm whether it's strep throat...
If the rapid strep test is negative after an initial visit to a healthcare professional, a throat culture is generally sent to a lab for further testing. The healthcare professional should contact the patient if the throat culture results are positive for strep throat. In this case, a course...
To diagnose strep throat, you need to visit your primary care provider or an urgent care clinic for timely assessment, which will include a rapid strep test or throat culture. Both types of tests require using a swab to collect mucus from inside the throat for testing. “The culture takes...
Rapid Strep Test and Oral Culture Just looking at a patient's throat is not enough to diagnose strep throat, so your doctor will want to perform a test to be sure. The rapid strep test is attempted first to make a quick determination of the possible presence of strep-causing bacteria in...
Though the RADT provides quick results, it is not as precisely reliable as a throat culture. This test is able to detect infections that a rapid strep test may not pick up. In this test, the doctor will once again take a swab. She will brush it over the back of the throat and the...
Athroat cultureuses a sample of tissue taken from the back of your throat using a swab. The sample is sent to the laboratory where technicians will look at it to see if any bacteria is growing. The results take several days to come back, but it is the most accurate test for strep thr...