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Pharyngitis : Tests

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Your health care provider will perform a physical exam and look at your throat. Tests to rule out strep throat may be done.
Source:ADAM
Date:March 14, 2009
During a physical examination, a health care provider studies a patient''s body to determine the presence or absence of physical problems.
Source:ADAM
Date:February 23, 2009
A throat swab culture is a laboratory test done to isolate and identify organisms that may cause infection in the throat.You will be asked to tilt your head back and open your mouth wide. The health care provider rubs a sterile cotton swab along t...
Source:ADAM
Date:September 3, 2008
A throat culture is a technique for identifying disease bacteria in material taken from the throat. Most throat cultures are done to rule out infections caused by beta-hemolytic streptococci, which cause strep throat.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
A throat culture is a microbiological procedure for identifying disease-causing bacterial organisms in material taken from the throat. A throat swab will capture the causative organism in most cases and the culture will allow the specific organism...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
A throat culture is a technique for identifying disease-causing microorganisms in material taken from the throat. Most throat cultures are performed to identify infections caused by Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci, which cause strep throat.The...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Although many people assume that a sore throat means strep throat, most sore throats are not strep.
Source:StayWell
Strep bacteria pass from one person to another through nose and throat fluids when an infected person coughs or sneezes or touches another person or object with a hand contaminated by these fluids.
Source:StayWell
A complete blood count(CBC) test measures the following:.The number of red blood cells(RBCs) The number of white blood cells(WBCs) The total amount of hemoglobin in the blood The fraction of the blood composed of red blood cells( hematocrit) The s...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 10, 2008
One of the most commonly ordered clinical laboratory tests, a blood count, also called a complete blood count(CBC), is a basic evaluation of the cells(red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets) suspended in the liquid part of the blood(pla...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
A complete blood count(CBC) is a series of tests used to evaluate the composition and concentration of the cellular components of blood. It consists of the following tests: red blood cell(RBC) count, white blood cell(WBC) count, and platelet count...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
A complete blood count(CBC) is a series of tests used to evaluate the composition and concentration of the cellular components of blood. It consists of the following tests: red blood cell(RBC) count, white blood cell(WBC) count, and platelet count...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
The clinical laboratory test that evaluates the three main cellular components of peripheral blood(red cells, white cells, and platelets) is called the"complete blood count"(CBC). It is used commonly to assess whether a patient is anemic(low red c...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
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