Children and adults with sore throats are often tested for strep throat. If untreated, strep throat can lead to rheumatic fever.
The traditional method for assessing whether or not someone has strep throat is a culture. Because the results of the culture take a day to obtain, more rapid tests are often used. The Biostat A Optical Immunoassay (Strep A OIA), first developed in the early 1990s, is one of the rapid tests. Heiter and Bourbeau (1995) conducted a study in which the results of both the culture a. True
b. False
