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Group A Streptococcal Infections
How is strep throat diagnosed?
Your health care provider will take a sample from your throat. This will be used for a culture or a rapid strep test, which only takes 10 to 20 minutes. If the result of the rapid test is negative, your provider may do a follow-up culture to confirm the results, which takes 24 to 48 hours. If the culture test is also negative, your health care provider may suspect you do not have strep, but rather another type of infection. The results of these throat cultures will affect what your health care provider decides to be the best treatment. Most sore throats are caused by viral infections, however, and antibiotics are useless against them.
What is Group A Streptococcal Infections?
What is strep throat and what are the symptoms?
How does Group A strep spread to others?
