Viral Disease Tests - Types of Test, Costs, Symptoms, Procedure, Benefits and More..

The tests for Immunofluorescence or the  immunoperoxidase assays are the most commonly used tests for detecting whether your virus is present in the tissue sample or not. These tests are also based on principle that if your tissue is infected with any virus, the specific antibody to the virus will be able to bind to it.

To diagnose any specific virus, the healthcare might swab the nose or throat take the blood sample for your test procedure. If you feel that the viral infection would cause any inflammation in the lungs, brain or any other internal organ.

The viral infection that usually lasts only the week duration or two week duration. However, similar symptoms are experienced by individuals who have bacterial infection, which may require antibiotic treatment to subside. Man-a-times, this takes from 1 week to around 1 month to get better.

Virus identification is in general performed either by the  indirect immunofluorescence of your virus-infected cells using the group- and type-specific monoclonal antibodies, or in case of the RT-PCR on extracts of the cell supernatants using  any specific primers or the probes.

The Antibody testing for the different viruses also use the blood samples. When an individual contracts the infection, body makes the antibodies against it. Each type of the virus comes with their own antibodies.

The Different Viral tests might be done for the viruses such as:

• Herpes simplex
• Chickenpox
• Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
• Epstein-Barr virus.
• Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
• Rotavirus
• Hepatitis
• HPV