Validation of a whole blood machine learning strategy for distinguishing between bacterial and viral infection in a pediatric hospital setting

Abstract

Similar symptoms between viral and bacterial diseases often make diagnosis difficult. This study assessed the clinical performance of the newly cleared whole-blood Bacterial versus Viral Score assay in our pediatric cohort to the previously validated serum assay and emergency department physician diagnosis. This assay shows excellent agreement (R = 0.997) with the serum assay and has great diagnostic accuracy when compared to physician diagnosis.

Keywords

• Infection
• Viremia
• Bacteraemia
• Antibiotics