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Test Code BF AER/ANA Body Fluid Culture Aerobic/Anaerobic

Test Order Code

LAB1230030

Methodology

Presumptive and definitive identification of microorganisms by gram stain and colony morphology growth on selective media and biochemical panels. Includes susceptibilities as needed at an additional charge. All body fluid requests will automatically have a gram stain added. This will allow us to better assess the need for special culture procedures and thus ensure a more accurate result, while at the same time providing pertinent information to the physician as early as possible.

Performing Laboratory

Sky Lakes Medical Center-Microbiology

Specimen Requirements

Acceptable Specimens: Peritoneal fluid, pleural fluid, body fluid 

Unacceptable Specimens: Drainage sites or pus (order wound culture), urine (order urine culture)

Specimen source is required.

 

Specimen must arrive in laboratory within 24 hours of collection.

Container/Tube: Sterile container or syringe

Specimen Volume: 1 mL, minimum volume: 0.5 mL

 

Collection Instructions:

1. If transporting in a syringe, the needle must be removed prior to transport to laboratory.

2. Label container/syringe with patient’s name (first and last), medical record number or date of birth, specimen source, and date and time of collection.

3. As with other cultures, administration of antibiotics prior to culture may make recovery of pathogens difficult to impossible.

4. Rejection criteria include delayed transport of >24 hours at ambient temperature, unsterile container, syringe with needle attached, or specimen in EDTA tube.

 

Alternate Swab, Container/Tube: Culture transport swab in sterile culture transport

Additional Information:Swab specimens are not recommended unless it’s the only available method.

Specimen Transport Temperature

Ambient

Reference Values

Negative

Day(s) Test Set Up

Monday throughSunday

Test Classification and CPT Coding

87070-Culture>87205-Gram stain