A Single Test Can Diagnose Most Diseases With Nearly 90 Percent Accuracy

A single genomic test that can detect virtually any infectious pathogen in the human body has shown an 86 percent success rate in diagnosing neurological infections, according to a decade-long study at the University of California–San Francisco (UCSF), published Tuesday in Nature Medicine. This test, which recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognition, can potentially improve care for neurological infections such as meningitis and encephalitis and accelerate the detection of new viral pandemic threats. How the Technology Works While most other tests can only detect one or a few pathogens at a time, this new one can detect all pathogens present by analyzing the genetic material in a patient sample....