NCT03137823

Diagnosis of GABHS Tonsillitis - Comparison Between Culture From Tonsills and Culture From the Bucal Surface

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Bait Balev Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Diagnosis of Group A beta hemolytic strep tonsillitis - * cultre of tonsills (gold standard) * culture from bucal surface (test)

Detailed description

This study will examine 2 groups. first group of 50 children aged 3-18 years and the second group of adults aged 18-65 with a clinical diagnosis of tonsillitis and centor criteria of 2 or more (fever, exudates on tonsills, no cough, enlarged lymph nodes). In each patient we'll take 2 cultures - the first from the tonsills and the second from the bucal surface. both of them will be sent to MEGA-LAB . the treatment will be based only on the gold standrad culture from the tonsills.

Conditions

• Tonsillitis
• Tonsillitis Streptococcal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	throat culture	throat culture - from the tonsills and from the bucal surface

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-22
• Primary completion: 2019-05-22
• Completion: 2019-07-01
• First posted: 2017-05-03
• Last updated: 2018-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel