Faster DNA Sleuthing Saves Critically Ill Boy, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Study

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A 14-year-old boy’s turnaround and quick recovery after mysteriously being stricken by brain-inflaming encephalitis - which led to him being hospitalized for six weeks and put into a medically induced coma after falling critically ill - shows that the newest generation of DNA analysis tools can be harnessed to reveal the cause of a life-threatening infection even when physicians have no suspects.

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