Journal article
Pharyngeal gram stains in the treatment of sore throats
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians, v 7(6), pp 229-232
Jun 1978
PMID: 77930
Abstract
The use of the direct pharyngeal Gram stain for diagnosis of group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis was evaluated. Seventy-five consecutive out-patients presenting with pharyngitis (or high fever in infants) were studied with pharyngeal cultures and Gram stains. Gram stains were read as either positive, negative, or indeterminate for streptococcal pharyngitis. When these predictions were correlated with the resulting culture growth of group A beta-hemolytic strep-tococci, the predictive value of a throat smear Gram stain was found to be significant (p < 0.005). There were two false positives and three false negatives. Approx-imately one third of the smears were in the indeterminate category. Although the Gram stain of a pharyngeal smear was found to be less sensitive than the routine throat culture, the ability to obtain inexpensive rapid microbiological information suggests that the Gram stain can be used as a quick screening procedure.
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- Title
- Pharyngeal gram stains in the treatment of sore throats
- Creators
- Jerris R. Hedges - Drexel UniversityDavid K. Wagner - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians, v 7(6), pp 229-232
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- MD (Doctor of Medicine) Program; Emergency Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1978FA84400002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0017803309
- Other Identifier
- 991021903259304721