Cheap blood test can discriminate between bacterial, viral infections

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 14:01 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have made an important breakthrough in their ongoing efforts to develop a diagnostic test that can tell health-care providers whether a patient has a bacterial infection and will benefit from antibiotics. The study was published July 6 in Science Translational Medicine. Antibiotics have saved millions of lives […]

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