5 Pharmaceutical and veterinary preparations and substances consisting of catalytic DNA molecules and associated detection reagents for the diagnosis of diseases, for detection and identification of pathogens, for the detection of antibiotic resistance, for the analysis of gene expression, protein expression, metabolite expression, inflammation, and immune-suppression and immune disorders, for genotyping, analysis of polymorphisms, detection of acquired or inherited genetic mutations, detection and analysis of epigenetic alterations, and for analysis of response to therapy; reagents for medical and veterinary use; nucleic acid amplification reagents for medical use; nucleic acid sequencing preparations for medical use; chemical preparations containing enzymes for medical purposes for the diagnosis of diseases or detection or identification of pathogens, for the detection of antibiotic resistance, for the analysis of gene expression, protein expression, metabolic expression, inflammation, and immune-suppression and immune disorders for genotyping, analysis of polymorphisms, detection of acquired or inherited genetic mutations, detection and analysis of epigenetic alterations, analysis of response to therapy; chemical preparations containing enzymes for pharmaceutical, veterinary and medical purposes for the diagnosis of diseases or detection or identification of pathogens, for the detection of antibiotic resistance, for the analysis of gene expression, protein expression, metabolic expression, inflammation, and immune-suppression and immune disorders for genotyping, analysis of polymorphisms, detection of acquired or inherited genetic mutations, detection and analysis of epigenetic alterations, analysis of response to therapy; enzymes for pharmaceutical, veterinary and medical purposes for the diagnosis of diseases or detection or identification of pathogens, for the detection of antibiotic resistance, for the analysis of gene expression, protein expression, metabolic expression, inflammation, and immune-suppression and immune disorders for genotyping, analysis of polymorphisms, detection of acquired or inherited genetic mutations, detection and analysis of epigenetic alterations, analysis of response to therapy; medical kits containing medical and/or pharmaceutical preparations and associated detection reagents for the diagnosis of diseases, for detection and identification of pathogens, for the detection of antibiotic resistance, for the analysis of gene expression, protein expression, metabolite expression, inflammation, and immune-suppression and immune disorders, for genotyping, analysis of polymorphisms, detection of acquired or inherited genetic mutations, detection and analysis of epigenetic alterations, and for analysis of response to therapy; clinical diagnostic preparations for medical or veterinary use; biological chemical diagnostic test kits comprised of reagents and assays for medical laboratory use in analysis that test for the presence of gene expression, protein expression, metabolite expression, inflammation, immune-suppression, immune disorders