Assessment of Flocked Swabs for the Identification of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pharyngitis; Streptococcal Infection

Treatments: Device: Flocked swab

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00527852

07/59X

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a study to to compare traditional fibre wound swabs to more recently developed flocked swabs for the identification of Group A streptococcal pharyngitis in children presenting to a children's emergency department.

Enrollment: 350 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Need for a bacterial throat culture

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind