From Guessing to Knowing: Closing Diagnostic Gap in Pediatric Infection
2025-07-18
For years, diagnosing infections in children meant relying on a mix of instinct, limited testing, and broad-spectrum antibiotics. Pediatricians, constrained by nonverbal patients and vague symptoms, often made educated guesses and erred on the side of caution with aggressive treatments.
Breakthroughs in genetic pathogen detection have ushered in a new age of precision medicine in pediatrics. Professor Tian Man, Director of the Respiratory Department at Nanjing Children's Hospital, has stood at the frontline of pediatric respiratory medicine, witnessing the development of genetic testing in how clinicians approach infectious diseases.
