Performance of a rapid antigen-detection test and throat culture in community pediatric offices: Implications for management of pharyngitis (Pediatrics (2009) 123, 2, (437-444) DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0488);Performance of a rapid antigen-detection test and throat culture in community pediatric offices: Implications for management of pharyngitis

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 437-444

  Tanz, Robert R ^a,c   Gerber, Michael A ^b   Kabat, William ^c   Rippe, Jason ^c   Seshadri, Roopa ^d   Shulman, Stanford T ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S MEMORIAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Group a streptococcus; Pharyngitis; Rapid diagnostic tests; Throat culture

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; THROAT CULTURE; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61549121103     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-1300     Document Type: Erratum

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