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Culture Throat Swab
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Throat Swab
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Understanding Culture Throat Swab
What is Culture Throat Swab?
The culture throat swab blood test is mainly used to determine bacterial infections inside the throat. The infections included in the list are pneumonia, tonsillitis, whopping cough, meningitis and strep throat.
What is Culture Throat Swab used for?
The reason why you should get a throat swab culture done is to find out if organisms are present inside the throat that could be responsible for causing the infection. The presence of streptococcus bacteria which is a part of group A bacteria is a crucial sign that the patient maybe suffering from strep throat. Also your doctor might ask you to get tested in case you show symptoms such as swelling, redness and pus in the region of the tonsils.
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