Throat culture remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis. Many authors recommended 48 h incubation time for the isolation of group A Streptococcus (GAS). In this study the diagnostic efficacy of prolonging the incubation time of throat cultures to 72 h for isolation ...
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...
In our laboratory, the negative rapid group A streptococcal (GAS) antigen assays are backed up by the Solana® GAS Assay by Quidel instead of a Group A streptococcal throat culture. Another FDA cleared RT-PCR assay is the Xpert® Xpress Strep A, which detects Streptococcus pyogenes DNA, ...
Because serum titers for streptococcal pharyngitis are rarely performed, the diagnosis of "definite" streptococcal pharyngitis is rarely confirmed. Therefore, performing the laboratory culture is generally regarded as the criterion standard—imperfect sensitivity and specificity notwithstanding.12,39 Thus, in ...
A bacterial throat culture, monotest, and Epstein-Barr virus were performed on each eligible patient to reach a final diagnosis of IM-induced acute exudative pharyngitis. Participants were then asked to rate their sore throat pain at time 0 on a standardized visual analog scale (VAS) from 0 ...
The stocks were frozen at −80°C and virus titers were determined by 50% tissue culture infective dose (TCID50) assay. Coxsackievirus A10 The human rhabdomyosarcoma cell line (RD) was purchased from the ATCC. The cells were cultivated in DMEM (Sigma Aldrich) supplemented with 10% fetal ...
The impact of incubating the throat culture for 72 h on the diagnosis of group A beta-hemolytic streptococci. Auris nasus larynx 33:311-313.Kocoglu E, Karabay O, Yilmaz F, Ekerbicer H. The impact of incu- bating the throat culture for 72 h on the diagnosis of group A b- hemolytic ...
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Diagnosis is made based on clinical examination findings, specifically physical evidence of middle ear inflammation, presence of middle ear effusion, and symptoms which include pain, irritability, and fever [81]. Chronic otitis media (COM) is a result of multiple recurrent infections of the middle ...