Laboratory Diagnosis Of Viral Infections
In the diagnostic laboratory virus infections are confirmed by several methods that include:
- Growth of the virus in a cell culture from a specimen taken from the patient.
- Detection of virus-specific antibodies in the blood.
- Detection of virus antigens
- Detection of virus nucleic acids
- Observation of virus particles by electron microscopy.
- Hemagglutination assay
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