Clinical Virology

Clinical Virology.

Total quality management in clinical virology laboratories.

The diagnostic laboratories in India are progressively promoting higher standards and are moving towards accreditation and international acceptance. Hence, the concept of "Quality" will need to be understood and implemented. Total quality management (TQM) in a laboratory is an integrated program involving all laboratory staff and management. TQM is a framework to operate and it is aiming for in...

Varicella-Zoster Virus Virology and Clinical Management

A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology

complement to a standard echocardiographic text, such as the one as written by Dr. Paperbound. Recent advances in molecular biology that allow one to diagnose and study the pathogenesis of viruses along with current strides in rational drug design have provided the clinician with an abundance of facts relevant to the practice of clinical medicine. With so much information scattered throughout t...

Molecular techniques for clinical diagnostic virology.

A decade after the first studies were performed it is justifiable to claim that molecular techniques have revolutionised the work of the clinical virology laboratory. Hitherto, the role of the virology laboratory was often a retrospective diagnosis based on virus isolation and serology. Nevertheless, the epidemiological data collected in this way justified the continued activity of clinical vir...