QuStick Strep A kits use a simple dip stick format. Each kit includes individually pouched test strips, reagent A and B, positive and negative external controls, polyester throat swabs ...

About 150,000 pregnant women - one in five - carry group-B streptococcus ... and if you're going to test, is it better to do a culture test at 35 to 37 weeks pregnancy or a bedside test?

Though strep throat is most common in children ... This is one reason a throat culture or rapid test "is needed to confirm it," says Dr. Melissa Zheng, an otolaryngologist at Mayo Clinic in ...

Amazingly, these two questions are almost as effective as lab tests. So before you head to the doctor, give yourself a quick strep test. For WebMD, I'm Dr. Arefa Cassoobhoy.

However, if your rapid test is negative and your doctor still suspects you have strep, they will use the second swab for a throat culture test, says Darzynkiewicz. Then lab techs will wait for ...