MD, PhD, Director of Emergency Medicine Department, Mount Isa Hospital/North West Hospital and Health Service, Qld; Associate Professor, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Qld
The usefulness of modern point-of-care tests for group A streptococci (GAS) is determined by the presence of carriers of GAS.
Evidence supports some beneficial effects of antibiotics prescribed to patients with a sore throat and proven presence of group A streptococci.