Multicentre evaluation of a direct coagglutination test for group A streptococci
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 6 (3) , 303-305
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02017619
Abstract
A coagglutination test for detection of group A streptococci in throat samples was evaluated in a multicentre study and found to be about 95 % sensitive when applied to swabs taken from symptomatic patients which yielded more than 100 colonies per plate on culture. The sensitivity of the test dropped significantly when it was applied to swabs giving fewer than 100 colonies on culture. The specificity of the test was high regardless of colony count on conventional media.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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