Pharyngitis,Group A Streptococcal Infection,Rapid Streptococcal Test,Throat Swab Culture

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pharyngitis

Treatments: Procedure: Rapid Immunochromatographic streptococcal test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02494219

HamadMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparison of Immunochromatographic Test for rapid detection of group A streptococcal antigen with culture in Pediatric patients.

Full description

Throat swabbing by two port germ Amines agar (copan) swabs,then the swabs were randomly labeled as swab A and swab B.Swab A was processed for rapid streptococcal test and swab B was processed for culture in Colombia blood agar.All patients were followed up after 48-72 hours with the final culture results that ultimately determined the need to continue or discontinue treatment.

Enrollment: 906 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients presenting with the possible diagnosis of Bacterial pharyngitis,between 1-14 years of age.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who received antibiotics within two weeks from presentation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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906 participants in 1 patient group

Rapid Immunochromatographic Streptococcal test

Experimental group

Description:

Throat swabbing by two port germ Amines agar (copan) swabs,the swabs were randomly labeled as swab A and swab B.Swab A was processed for rapid streptococcal test and swab B was processed for culture in Colombia blood agar.All patients were followed up after 48-72 hours with the final culture results that ultimately determined the need to continue or discontinue treatment.

Treatment:

Procedure: Rapid Immunochromatographic streptococcal test