The infection is spread by contact with infected mucus or saliva. Your doctor may recommend a rapid strep screening test if you have a sore throat and fever. Other signs of a strep infection ...

Not everyone who gets a strep test, however, ends up with a positive diagnosis. While working on her MBA at Carey Business School, Canares, a pediatric emergency physician, and Mathias Unberath, a ...

Debating whether to seek a strep test for that sore throat? One day there could be an app for that: Researchers are developing a home scorecard that aims to prevent thousands of unnecessary trips ...

The organism can be reliably detected with a simple throat swab, with results available within 24 hours, or in minutes with the less reliable rapid strep test. (Kids who get a negative result on a ...

Your doctor might also perform rapid strep test. Both are done by swabbing the tonsils and the back of your throat. However, in a throat culture, the organism is grown in a laboratory in order to ...

[2] Some healthcare professionals continue to use the rapid strep screen despite a false-negative rate that ranges from 5% to 40%. In addition, this test is diagnostic only for group A beta ...

Not everyone who gets a strep test, however, ends up with a positive diagnosis. While working on her MBA at Carey Business School, Canares, a pediatric emergency physician, and Mathias Unberath ...