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. 1997 Aug;35(8):2165-7.
doi: 10.1128/jcm.35.8.2165-2167.1997.

Laboratory diagnosis of respiratory virus infections in 24 hours by utilizing shell vial cultures

H D Engler  1 , J Preuss
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Laboratory diagnosis of respiratory virus infections in 24 hours by utilizing shell vial cultures

H D Engler et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1997 Aug.

Abstract

Immunofluorescence staining of centrifugation-enhanced shell vial (SV) cultures for respiratory viruses (RV) after 24 h of incubation, rather than the more commonly prescribed times of 48 h and 5 days, allowed for the detection of 77% of the RV-positive specimens that would ordinarily not have been detected as positive until 48 h. Staining SVs at 24 h also permitted earlier detection of viruses that were missed by rapid antigen detection methods.

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