Most clinical laboratories do not routinely culture virus, why so?
Answers:
Because culturing viruses is a gargantuan staggering pain that requires special media. A lab have to be set up to handle eukaryotic cell cultures to even grow them, beyond that, it has to have the training and equipment to in truth
Viruses do not grow on their own. They infect cells and use the cells to reproduce. Beyond that, they usually only infect a specific style of cell.
The basic gist of it is that it's expensive, painfully slow, time consuming and requires special expertise and equipment. By comparison, to do a bacterial culture, you need agar an incubator, and some stains.
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