Clinical Significance of Viral Diagnostics Nitya Batra, Satish Gupte, Prerna Aggarwal, Maninder Kaur, Ashwini Manhas, Manju Bala, Ravi Kumar Department of Microbiology, GianSagar Medical College and Hospital, Banur, Punjab Corresponding author Dr. Satish Gupte Prof.& Head, Department of Microbiology, GianSagar Medical College and Hospital, Banur, Punjab e.mail: drsatishgupte@hotmail.com Manuscript received : 14.10.2014 Manuscript accepted: 17.11.2014 Abstract Diagnostics in virology has become a very important tool in both diagnosis and prognosis of a disease. Rapid and accurate diagnosis of an infection should enhance patient outcome by enabling early initiation of appropriate therapy and thus implementation of relevant infection- control measures. Virological diagnostic methods may be implemented as adjuncts to the epidemiologic investigation of infectious disease outbreaks.Thus, paving a way for the development of newer antiviral drugs. Molecular diagnostics has helped in overcoming the various challenges and has helped the clinicians in determining the appropriate therapy to be initiated. Introduction In medicine,clinical significance is the practical importance of a treatment effect, whether it has a real genuine, palpable, noticeable effect on daily life. A number of sensitive and 291