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Future diagnostics. In the future, respiratory tract infections may be diagnosed by merging pathogen detection (the current method for diagnostics) with host response measures that further define the cause of the symptoms (viral, bacterial, coinfections, not pathogenic). This merger will help clarify diagnoses and define appropriate treatment measures.
