DNA Sequencing: A new Tool in the Diagnostic Toolbox

An article from Popsci.com titled "DNA Sequencing Diagnoses Boy's Mysterious Bacterial Disease", gives an account of the diagnosis of Leptospira infection in a boy who was not showing the typical signs of this type of infection. When traditional means of diagnosis were not successful in identifying the cause of the boy's illness, experimental DNA sequencing was successful. Click the link below to read more about this beginning of the genetic revolution in medicine.

Read more: http://www.popsci.com/article/science/dna-sequencing-diagnoses-boys-mysterious-bacterial-disease