Virology for Cls & Mlt

Copyright 2018 Mary Michelle Shodja, PhD, MS, CLS (ASCP).

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To my mother, for her sacrifices, this is for you.

To my aunt Angie Gramcko, thank you for everything you had done for your younger sister (my mom) and her children. We would not be where we are right now without your help. To my sisters, Mae, Chingbee and Lee thank you for your continued love and support. Lastly, with deep gratitude to Christine Sy and my bestfriends, Anna Hamilton and Helena Pangan, thank you for your friendship of 25+ years.

While there’s life, there is hope

Stephen Hawking

To laboratory students and fellow laboratorians, never forget what you learned and never stop learning new things.

The Author

Preface

This manual is the sixth of a series of 20 manuals that the author was commissioned to write for the Medical Laboratory Technology (MLT) training program in Diamond Bar, California that was granted approval as a training facility in 2009 by the State Department of Health and Human Services. In writing these