BACKGROUND: Close contact transmission (either direct or large droplet/droplet nuclei) is considered the main driver of influenza outbreaks but there is limited information regarding the role of fomites in transmission.
A plaque assay-the gold-standard method for measuring the concentration of replication-competent lytic virions-requires staining and usually more than 48 h of runtime. Here we show that lens-free holographic imaging and deep learning can be combined ...
Virological plaque assay is the major method of detecting and quantifying infectious viruses in research and diagnostic samples. Furthermore, viral plaque phenotypes contain information about the life cycle and spreading mechanism of the virus formin...