If the person has serious symptoms or is in a panic, doctors take a throat swab for viral culture and a blood test.
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Artus said the new tests can detect the genetic sequence of the virus in throat swabs, saliva and fecal samples, producing results within two hours.
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In up to 25 % of patients, no focus of infection is found and the diagnosis is usually made on blood cultures or throat swab.
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It was a retrospective study ( 2008 2010 ) and looked at 441 children who attended a Belgian hospital emergency department and had a throat swab taken.
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What causes epidemic erythromelalgia in southern China remains unknown although several erythromelalgia-associated poxviruses were isolated from throat swabs of several patients at different counties and two different seasons.
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Sore throats should in addition either have documented evidence of enlarged lymph glands, raised temperature, positive throat swabs ( demonstrating Streptococcal infection ) or pus seen on the tonsils.
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As well as taking dung samples from permafrost on the Ross Ice Shelf, the researchers will analyze throat swabs and blood samples from live penguins which may contain influenza antibodies.
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Biostar has not yet set a price for the test, which can be performed in doctors'offices in less than 15 minutes, using samples from saliva, mucus or a throat swab.
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It concluded that the Centor criteria are ineffective in predicting the presence of Group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus ( i . e . antibiotic treatment-worthy ) on throat swab cultures in children.
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Usually publications stating PPV of a throat swab are reporting on the probability that this bacteria is present in the throat, rather than that the patient is ill from the bacteria found.
