Strep in a sentence as a noun

There's no such thing as normal in the same way that it's normal to be free of strep throat.

When it did, I ended up getting strep throat and general body aches.

Do I really need a person who went to school for "decades" to swab my kid's tongue to see if she has strep?

It works out pretty well for the patient who just wants to confirm that he has strep throat and get some antibiotics.

Strep in a sentence as an adjective

Once S. pyogenes is colonized in animals, it can be re-transmitted to humans as a human pathogen that causes strep throat.

The diagnosis was initially strep, but it soon became evident that the diagnosis was the much more rare Kawasaki disease.

Avoiding certain very undesirable outcomes is worth an infinite amount of money to me, but suffering from strep throat symptoms for 3 days instead of 5 days is worth a finite amount of money.

I've heard that many women don't realize that most antibiotics destroy the effectiveness of the pill, meaning that a back-up birth control method needs to be used in a cycle where she gets strep, or an ear infection, or a UTI, or many other common illnesses.

Strep definitions

noun

spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis

See also: streptococcus streptococci

adjective

of or relating to or caused by streptococci

See also: streptococcal streptococcic