By Marcus A. Banks
Pediatricians at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California have developed a more cost-effective way to determine whether a child has a respiratory tract infection (RTI). They presented their work at the ASM Microbe 2025 meeting, in Los Angeles (poster session CIV-P-202. CIV05).
An RTI is one of the most common reasons children present to the emergency department (ED). A respiratory viral panel (RVP) can be essential in diagnosing an RTI, the