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Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases requires an individually defined course of highly specialized laboratory procedures. In order to obtain relevant results it is necessary to get detailed data concerning the patient as well as clinical information concerning the type of disease and the date of its onset, including any special symptoms which may be present. On the basis of this information, the diagnostician in the laboratory has to decide what type of tests are to be performed and, depending on the preliminary results, which additional diagnostic procedures are necessary. Finally, the results of the laboratory tests together with the clinical symptomatology and the epidemiological or endemiological situation enable a report to be compiled.
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Habermehl, KO. (1983). Data Processing in Clinical Virology. In: Bachmann, P.A. (eds) New Developments in Diagnostic Virology. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68949-9_5
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