What Disease Can Throat Swab Check

The examination of throat swab is usually the process of collecting the patient’s throat secretions with throat test paper and sending them to the laboratory for a series of examinations, so as to identify the viruses, bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms infected by human body. Through such examination, it is mainly to prepare for individualized and precise treatment. Usually, the detected bacteria are taken as the drug sensitivity test. Through the drug sensitivity test, we can know which antibiotics are very sensitive to the bacteria in the patient’s body, so there is a very sufficient basis for drug selection, which makes the treatment very effective. If it is a fungal infection, we have special drugs to treat it, which usually avoids a large amount of abuse of antibiotics.

Throat swabs are commonly used for diphtheria, acute suppurative tonsillitis and acute pharyngolaryngitis. Swallow swab examination is to take the secretion of throat, carry out bacterial culture, and then carry out drug sensitivity test according to the infected bacteria. The results of throat swab examination can provide an important basis for clinicians to use drugs accurately.