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What is the gold standard for laboratory confirmation of mumps?

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What is the gold standard for laboratory confirmation of mumps?

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Virus culture. Laboratories are strongly encouraged to perform cell culture isolation of mumps from buccal/oral swabs specimens. Primary monkey kidney cells and Vero cells have been used successfully. Detection of mumps in culture can be done using immunofluorescent antibody staining or standard RT-PCR.