Km. Doing et al., USE OF FLUORESCENT-ANTIBODY STAINING OF CYTOCENTRIFUGE-PREPARED SMEARS IN COMBINATION WITH CELL-CULTURE FOR DIRECT-DETECTION OF RESPIRATORYVIRUSES, Journal of clinical microbiology, 36(7), 1998, pp. 2112-2114
Over a 3-year period, 1,003 respiratory samples were collected and exa
mined for selected respiratory viruses with cytocentrifuged prepared s
mears stained with fluorescently labeled antibodies (IFA) in conjuncti
on with cell culture. IFA results were compared with results obtained
by cell culture. Viruses were isolated or detected by direct means in
401 samples. Agreement between culture and IFA was 90%.