How would you test for herpesvirus (immunoassay/PCR)? Then, how would you design an effective assay to measure the infectivity of the herpesvirus using cell culture method?
there is most effective test for herpes virus is PCR
viral culture
1. for virus culture scrapes or swabs one of your sores to take a sample. and spread on medium. then check the sample for herpes virus kept it for 7 days to get good result
HSV grows readily in a wide variety of cell lines including human foreskin fibroblasts, MRC-5, A549, rhabdomyosarcoma, mink lung, primary rabbit kidney
PCR= the viral culture, swabs or scrapes a sample from one of your sores. A lab gets the sample and looks for genes from the herpes virus. PCR test results either positive or negative
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