Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Infectious Diseases

Medical virology, Clinical and Diagnostic virology

Clinical or medical virology is the branch of medicine which more precisely deals with the clinical manifestations of pathology which consists in the isolation of one or more viruses that are responsible for human pathogens by direct or indirect methodologies such as cellular culture, serology, biochemistry and microbiology. Basically, virology is considered as the subfield of microbiology of medicine. Diagnostic virology has now become the mainstream in medical practice. Various methods have come into existence for the laboratory diagnosis of viral infections which includes viral culture, antigen detection, nucleic acid detection in virology diagnosis. Moreover, it is said that diagnostic virology has changed rapidly due to molecular techniques and clinical sensitivity of serological assays.