Performance of Routine Rapid Antigen Diagnostic Testing and Bacterial Culture Compared with PCR Testing for the Detection of Group A Strep

BACKGROUND: Rapid antigen detection tests (RADT) and bacterial culture are the current standard of care for diagnosing Group A Strep in pediatric patients. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests offer improved turn-around-times at the point-of-care (POC) or in the laboratory. PCR has demonstrated imp...

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Autores principales: Rao, Arundhati, Fader, Robert, Walker, Kimberly, Quezada, Theresa, Cowen, Ula, Tang, Shaowu, Duncan, Dana, Sickler, Joanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631577/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1627

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631577/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1627

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