1st order laboratory parameters – obligatory laboratory tests.
- Immunologic antigen detection
- Bacterial culture
Laboratory parameters 2nd order – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, etc. – for differential diagnostic clarification of.
- Bacterial pathogens
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Moraxella catarrhalis
- Mycoplasma
- Chlamydia
- Viral pathogens
- Influenza viruses
- Human coronaviruses (OC43, 229E)
- Adenoviruses
- Picornaviruses (especially rhinoviruses)
- Paramyxoviruses (essentially RS virus).
Detection by bacteriological, serological or virological test methods.