Seegene: "Virus-Only Testing May Miss Pneumonia-associated Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens" Calls for a Shift to Comprehensive Syndromic PCR Testing

Summary

Seegene presents data from a Global Million Clinical Study showing that virus-only testing misses bacterial co-detections in 78% of virus-positive cases and bacteria-only testing misses viral co-detections in 88% of cases, advocating for comprehensive syndromic PCR testing approaches.