Frieden: ‘We urgently need more sensitive, rapid tests to identify causes of pneumonia’
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#EB0D)
When U.S. adults are hospitalized with pneumonia, viruses are more often to blame than bacteria. However, despite current diagnostic tests, neither viruses nor bacteria are detected in the majority of these patients according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released today in the New England Journal of Medicine. This ["]