According to Yassad News, quoted by the Press Association, this revolutionary blood test can help diagnose the cause of children’s fever in less than an hour. In this study, researchers analyzed data from 1,212 patients with 18 categories of diseases, including those with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and tuberculosis, and found key genes that are turned on or off in response to the disease. They actually identified the molecular signature of the disease. In the next step, machine learning was used to identify patterns related to specific diseases, focusing on 161 genes. This method was tested on 411 children hospitalized due to severe poisoning or infection resulting from 13 of 18 diseases. The findings of this research were published in the medical journal “Cell Press Med” and show an experimental and efficient method.
This method uses a test based on gene reaction, which significantly improves the diagnosis of the disease in children and reduces the cases of late diagnoses and non-recognition of the disease. In addition, this method affects the provision of medical services, especially in developing areas. Currently, many diagnostic tests focus on a selection of pathogens, and it may take up to 72 hours for their results to be determined. But the researchers hope to control the overuse of antibiotics in children with the help of the new test, because this type of medicine is usually prescribed to the child until it is determined that he does not have an infection.
