strep

"Home Score," an app developed by two physicians at Boston Children's Hospital, brings patient-contributed data and public health "big data" together to assess an individual's risk for strep (Fine, Nizet, & Mandl, 2013).

Caption: The first question is whether this is a true recurrence of a strep infection.

"Increasing accessibility to testing for flu and strep throat and enabling pharmacists to work from those results means that patients might self-treat symptoms less and get better more quickly.

They determined those people's risk of strep using the experimental scorecard approach and checked the computer model's accuracy against the strep test results.

"This study supports that it is probably unnecessary to throw away your toothbrush after a diagnosis of strep throat," said co-author Judith L.

Group B Strep Support's chief executive Jane Plumb, who lost a child to the infection, said: "It is time for the Government to start thinking with its head, as well as its heart and offer pregnant women routine testing."

The liquid milk samples were cultured in blood agar within 6 h to isolate the Strep. Agalactiae.

If an adult patient caller has a son or daughter who currently has strep, the prior probability of strep causing the parent's sore throat increases dramatically.

The OCD that children develop with a strep infection looks quite different from the chronic course usually observed.

Given the variety of alternatives available--anything you would use for staph or strep throat--Dr.

Unfortunately, her friend was recently diagnosed with strep throat.

The API 20 Strep (bioMerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) identified the isolate as S.

Some sore throats are due to a streptococcal (strep-tuh-KOK-ul) bacterial infection (strep throat).

In recent years, group A strep has become a much more dangerous bacteria.