Blood test could tell if a fever is due to infection or other diseases

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Analysis of gene activity in a blood sample can help determine if a fever is caused by bacterial infection, a virus or an inflammatory disease

at Duke University in North Carolina. However, validation in larger datasets is necessary before it can be used in clinical settings, he says.

“Obviously, this is not a full list of every single infectious and inflammatory disease out there,” says Kaforou. “At the moment, we are recruiting more patients and generating more data to identify a signature that covers even more infectious and inflammation conditions.”

 

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