Learning objectives
On completing this topic, you should be able to:
- Understand how specimens for viral diagnosis are collected, handled, and transported to the laboratory
- Describe the principles of techniques used for diagnosing viruses
- Perform cultivation and identification of viruses from infected humans and animals.
- Select and perform suitable diagnostic tests for viral infections.
- Calculate virus titres from tissues, body fluids, supernatants from cell cultures, fluids from infected embryonated eggs etc.
- Interpret results obtained from different diagnostic tests.
- Use molecular biology tools in detecting and characterizing viral nucleic acids and proteins.
- Apply different scientific approaches in the diagnosis of viral infections.