In this 3-day course the basic principles of routine virus typing will be addressed by a combination of lectures, demonstration and hands-on training. Participants will visit the Viroscience clinical virology lab, where they will perform all required laboratory and analysis procedures for routine typing of viruses. Typing of enteroviruses will be used as an example, but the general procedures are applicable to typing of other viruses also. After this course participants should have sufficient knowledge to introduce routine typing of viruses in their own laboratory.