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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Aeromonas species |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-7 days |
FDA |
Afipia species (Cat
Scratch Fever) |
Identification |
Pure culture on blood or chocolate
agar slant |
12-21 days |
|
Isolation and identification |
Blood, tissue |
12-21 days |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Bacillus species |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
10-14 days |
|
Bacillus anthracis |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
Ruled out of B. anthracis
within 48 hrs. |
CDC |
Bacillus cereus |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-7 days |
FDA |
Bordetella pertussis
(Pertussis) |
Identification |
Pure culture on Regan-Lowe or
Bordet- Gengou agar slant |
Negative 10 days
Positive 4-6 days, results called |
CDC |
Isolation from clinical specimen |
Nasal swab in Regan-Lowe transport |
DFA - 24 hours, positive
results called to submitter |
DFA from clinical specimen |
1mm DFA slide with N-P smear |
Bartonella (Cat Scratch fever) |
Identification |
Pure culture on blood or chocolate
agar slant |
12-21 days |
|
Isolation from clinial specimens |
Blood or tissue, frozen,
shipped on wet ice (SPS is toxic to some Bartonella) |
negative 21 days positive 12-21 days |
Brucella species |
Identification and serology |
Pure culture on agar slant |
7-14 days |
|
Isolation from clinical specimen |
Blood, bone marrow aspirates, in
sterile tube shipped on wet ice |
negative 21 days positive 7-10 days |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Campylobacter |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar blood or
chocolate slant, campy gas pack |
4-7 days |
CDC |
Isolation from clinical specimen |
Stool specimen in Cary-Blair,
on wet ice packs Blood in blood culture bottle |
Negative 3-5 days Positive 3-7 days |
Corynebacterium species |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-10 days |
|
Corynebacterium
diphtheriae |
Identification, and toxin testing |
Pure culture on agar slant,
preferrably Loefflers |
4-7 days |
CDC |
Isolation and identification |
Swab in stuarts transport,
aimes transport, silica gel, or on loefflers slant |
2-5 days Positive results called to submitter |
Chlamydia
trachomatis |
Genetic probe |
Swab in GENPROBE transport tube |
48-72 hrs |
CDC |
Amplified Genetic probe *Limited at
present to approved sites |
Urine, room temp- 24 hour transport;
refrigerated 25-76 hr transport |
2-4 days |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Escherichia coli |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-7 days |
|
Escherichia coli
O157:H7 |
Identification and Serotyping; Shiga
toxin testing |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-7 days Serologically O157:H7 results called to submitter |
CDC |
Isolation, identification, and
serotyping; Shiga toxin testing |
Stool specimen in Cary-Blair, Aimes,
or Stuarts transport, on wet ice packs |
Shiga toxin
producing E. coli (EHEC) |
Identification and Serotyping; Shiga
toxin testing |
Pure culture on agar slant |
7-10 days;
referred to CDC if necessary Positive toxin results
called to submitter |
CDC |
Isolation, identification, and
serotyping; Shiga toxin testing |
Stool specimen in Cary-Blair, Aimes,
or Stuarts transport, on wet ice packs |
Enterococcus species |
Identification and serotying;
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Vancomycin resistance (Epidemiological data only) |
Pure culture on agar slant. |
4-10 days |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Fastidious gram negative or gram
positive rods |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
14-21 days |
|
Francisella
tularensis |
Identification |
Pure culture on BCYE or CHA slant |
7-21 days |
|
Isolation and identification |
Blood, tissue, lymph node biopsies
or aspirates, ulcer scrapings, gastric washings, sputum |
negative 21 days positive 7-21 days; called to submitter |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Haemophilus influenzae |
Identification and serotyping |
Pure culture on Chocolate agar slant |
4-7 days |
|
Haemophilus ducreyii |
Identification |
Pure culture on chocolate agar slant |
10-14 days |
|
Identification |
Lesion scrapings, urogenital swab
from infected area, transported on wet ice |
Negative 21 days Positive 7-21 days |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Legionella species |
Identification and DFA |
Pure culture on BCYE slant |
4-7 days |
CDC |
DFA, isolation, and Identification |
Sputum, bronchial washings, tracheal
aspirates, lung biopsy, shipped on wet ice |
DFA 1-3 days Positive results called
Culture: Negative 15 days
Positive 3-15 days called to submitter |
Listeria species |
Identification |
Pure cultures on non-glucose
containing agar slants |
4-7 days |
CDC FDA |
Isolation and identification |
Blood, CSF, amniotic fluid,
placental tissue, fetal tissue; shipped on wet ice within 48 hours of collection |
Negative 21 days Positive 5-14 days called to submitter |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Neisseria
gonorrhoeae |
Identification , antimicrobial
susceptibility studies to ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, tetracycline, and penicillin ( for
epidemiological studies only) |
Pure cultures on chocolate agar
slants |
4-7 days |
CDC |
Isolation and identification,
antimicrobial susceptibility studies to ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, tetracycline, and
penicillin ( for epidemiological studies only) |
Throat, rectum, or other
non-urogenital sites, or urogenital swabs on suspected sexual abuse cases submitted on
Thayer-Martin, transgrow, or Martin-Lewis media |
3-7 days |
Neisseria meningiditis |
Identification and serotyping |
Pure cultures on blood agar slants |
3-7 days Group C called to submitter |
CDC |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Pasturella species |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
7-14 days |
|
Plesiomonas shigelloides |
Identification |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-7 days |
CDC |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Salmonella species |
Identification and serotyping |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-10 days |
CDC FDA |
Isolation, identification, and
serotyping |
Stool specimen in Cary-Blair; Aimes,
or Stuarts transport, on wet ice |
3-7 days |
Shigella species |
Identification and serotyping |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-10 days |
CDC FDA |
Isolation, identification, and
serotyping |
Stool specimen in Cary-Blair; Aimes,
or Stuarts transport, on wet ice |
3-7 days |
Staphylococcus
aureus |
Identification, Antimicrobial
susceptibility testing for Vancomycin resistance, TSST-1 toxin for Toxic Shock syndrome |
Pure culture on agar slant. |
3-7 days Toxin positive results called to submitter
Vancomycin resistance called to submitter (for
epidemiological purposes only) |
CDC CDC |
Isolation and Identification |
Stool specimens on wet ice (Outbreak
situations only) |
2-4 days |
Streptococcus Group
A |
Identification, serogrouping |
Pure cultures on agar slants |
3-7 days emm typing restricted to sterile sites with clinical symptoms of
invasive disease |
CDC |
Isolation and Identification, and
serogrouping |
Throat swabs in stuarts or Aimes
transport. (Outbreak situations only) |
2-4 days |
Streptococcus Group
B |
Identification, serogrouping |
Pure cultures on agar slants |
3-7 days |
CDC |
Isolation, identification, and
serogrouping |
Vaginal swabs |
2-4 days
Positive results called to submitter |
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Vibrio cholerae O1 |
Identificaiton and seortyping |
Pure culture on agar slant |
2-7 days positive called to submitter within 48 hours |
FDA |
Isolation, identification, and
serotyping |
Stool specimen in Cary-Blair on wet
ice |
2-10 days positive called to submitter |
Vibrio cholerae
non-O1 |
Identificaiton and seortyping |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-7 days |
FDA |
Isolation, identification, and
serotyping |
Stool specimen in Cary-Blair on wet
ice |
2-7 days positive called to submitter |
Vibrio parahaemolyticus |
Identificaiton |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-7 days Forwarded to CDC for serology if necessary |
FDA |
Vibrio vulnificus |
Identificaiton |
Pure culture on agar slant |
4-7 days |
CDC FDA |
- Y
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Organism |
Testing
offered |
What
and How to Submit |
Expected
turnaround time for results |
Additional
Information |
Yersinia pestis |
Identification |
Pure cultures on agar slants |
4-15 days Submitted to CDC for additional studies and confirmation |
|
Isolation, identification |
Blood, tissue, bubo aspirates,
sputum, CSF, skin scrapings or swabs , on wet ice |
Negative 21 days Positive 4-15 days |
Yersinia
enterocolitica and other species |
Identification |
Pure cultures on agar slants |
4-7 days |
FDA |
Isolation, identification |
Stool in Cary-Blair, Stuarts, or
Aimes transport, on wet ice |
4-7 days Submission to CDC for serotyping in outbreak situations |