NCT02494219

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

Comparison of Immunochromatographic Test for Rapid Detection of Group A Streptococcal Antigen With Culture in Pediatric Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 906 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hamad Medical Corporation · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Year – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Pharyngitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Rapid Immunochromatographic streptococcal test	Throat swab obtained for rapid strep test in addition to throat culture,in order to check the accuracy of Rapid Immunochromatographic streptococcal test in detection of streptococcal pharyngitis

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2015-07-10
• Last updated: 2015-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Qatar