Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Distinguished From Underlying Critical Illness By Gene Chips

Critically ill patients who need a ventilator to breathe face a high risk of pneumonia. The lung infection, however, is exceedingly difficult to diagnose because a patient’s underlying condition often skews laboratory test results and masks pneumonia’s symptoms - a reality that can delay appropriate antibiotic treatment.Using gene chip technology, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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Filed under: Genetics on February 13th, 2008