Effect of using 2 throat swabs vs 1 throat swab on detection of group A streptococcus by a rapid antigen detection test

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 486-490

  Ezike, Elias N ^a   Rongkavilit, Chokechai ^a   Fairfax, Marilynn R ^b   Thomas, Ronald L ^a   Asmar, Basim I ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXUDATE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHARYNGITIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROAT CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; PHARYNGITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 18244366316     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.159.5.486     Document Type: Article

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