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That's when you do a throat culture. It used to be common 30 years ago. It's simple, accurate, non invasive, and basically risk free.
by pmiller2 10y ago
That's when you do a throat culture. It used to be common 30 years ago. It's simple, accurate, non invasive, and basically risk free.
- arkades 10y agoExcept that the throat culture takes 48 hours to come back, plus the time to get the patient started on the abx after that, on an infection that has a 5 day course to begin with, which got into your office somewhere on day 2. You wait 48+ hours on the backup culture, and you've missed your window to do anything with it. ...which is a big part of why it used to be common, and isn't now.
- pmiller2 10y agoRapid strep test backed up by throat culture is what you would do now. The rapid strep test is about 70-80% sensitive.