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Evaluation of a shell vial centrifugation method for the detection of herpes simplex virus
R L MacDonald1, B L Hughes, S L Aarnaes
1University of California Irvine Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Orange 92668.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A MRC-5 shell vial method was compared to a MRC-5 conventional tube cell culture method in 410 specimens, 88 of which were positive for herpes simplex virus. The shell vial had a sensitivity of 92% and a specificity of 99% when compared to conventional cell culture.