PENZBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To understand overall infectivity, virus progression and disease-onset it is important to perform a detailed examination of cytopathogenic effects. Depending on the type of virus and cells as well as the time point of infection (e.g. during the growth or the stationary phase) different cytopathogenic effects might be observed. One of the most common methods for measuring lysogenic/lytic activity of viruses is the plaque test, a labor-intensive end-point assay which cannot provide infotmation about the onset of cytopathic effects and the kinetics of the viral replication.
