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I have been coughing and sneezing for a couple of days with a headache and a fever last night of 100.8 if i went to the doctor would he swab my throat?

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Dr. Michael Zacharisen answered

Specializes in Allergy and Immunology

Not necessarily: Throat swab for rapid strep and culture would be done if there was a close contact with another person with strep pharyngitis, symptoms of sore throat with or without white patches/pus on tonsils, fever, enlarged lymph nodes in neck, abdominal pain and/or rash suspicious for strep.

Answered 3/16/2013

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