Comparison of methods for the laboratory diagnosis of ocular adenovirus type 3 infection.

A,t present, the laboratory confirmation of clinical adenovirus infection is generally made by either the isolation of virus in tissue culture or the finding of rising antibody tilers. Since it may take as long as two months to isolate an adenovirus and type it, and since the determination of rising titers is also laborious, it was hoped that some other method might be found for the rapid and reliable identification of adenovirus infection. The assessment of diagnostic techniques for any disease is often difficult because evaluation of sensitivity requires the investigator to know the number of people