Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine have shown that a nasal swab test can identify whether viral infections are causing a patient’s respiratory illness by measuring RNA or protein molecules in their cells.
“It’s a simpler test and more cost-effective for looking at viral infection,” says author Ellen Foxman, assistant professor of laboratory medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. “Instead of looking for individual viruses, our test asks the question: ‘Is the body fighting a virus?’ We found we can answer that question very well.”
Journal article:https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jix648/4743270
Know more: https://news.yale.edu/2017/12/21/new-test-shows-when-body-fighting-virus
Source: Corina Marinescu
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