Streptococcus pyogenes is the release of 1 or more bacterial toxins. Children are more common of a carrier between the ages of 5-15 but can affect others that come in contact with the school aged kid.

Strep throat is a type of group A streptococcoal (GAS) infection

•Rapid test or culture test that swabs the throat

•a rapid test takes 20 minutes after swabbing the throat.

•A throat culture is sent to the lab where the swab is smeared on a culture dish and takes one to two days

•Throat cultures sometimes find bacteria that rapid tests miss