If you see your doctor for a sore throat, they’ll likely use a rapid strep test to diagnose your condition. ... If your results are positive, you may have saved yourself a trip to the doctor.

Using an At-Home Strep Test. Healthcare providers have been using rapid strep tests to diagnose strep throat since the 1980s. Although they aren't yet available over the counter, research has ...

A rapid strep test can give results within minutes, Rajapakse says, and is the only test needed if someone tests positive for strep throat. But if rapid test results come back negative for strep ...

Topline. Some 50% of people who test positive for Covid-19 on a rapid test after five days of infection are likely no longer contagious, a Journal of the American Medical Association study ...

Among more than 11,000 participants, 1.7% had at least one false positive rapid antigen test on the basis of RT-PCR results. Persistent false positives tended to occur in women and in persons with ...

Clark believes her daughter’s brush with death could have been avoided had a rapid strep test be used. "If you have strep and you wait days to grow a culture, the strep is going to spread into ...

Checkable Medical has created an at-home strep test to provide a diagnosis in minutes. Trials are being conducted at Tribe Clinical Research in Greenville.

Rapid tests for strep exist, but they are hard to find in B.C. Nicholas Johansen/Castanet. Listen to this article. 00:03:10. Health officials this cold-and-flu season have warned about an increase ...