Comparison of Cultureset and Bartels Immunodiagnostics with conventional tissue culture for isolation and identification of herpes simplex virus.
Two 48-h Vero cell systems were compared with viral culture in human fibroblastic cells for isolation and identification of herpes simplex virus from clinical specimens. Both 48-h systems had 79% sensitivity and greater than 99% specificity as compared with the conventional tissue culture method.
D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D003588:Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral; D005347:Fibroblasts; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D007668:Kidney; D008828:Microbiological Techniques; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*