Lab Test Details
| LAB255 | |
| 87252; 87254 | |
| Cytomegalovirus culture; CMV shell vial | |
| Blood, urine, buffy coat, throat, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), bronchial washings, cervical, semen, biopsy sources, or bone marrow | |
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Urine-sterile container; bronchial: sterile container; blood/bone marrow:2 green top(sodium heparin only);Throat, semen, cervical ,biopsy sources in Viral transport medium |
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Two green-top (heparin) tubes; sterile leakproof urine container; viral, Chlamydia, or Mycoplasma culture transport provided by LabCorp, or other appropriate transport medium (throat, cervical, semen, biopsy sources) |
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10 to 14 mL blood or 4 mL urine Bronchoalveolar lavage: Submit 10 to 50 mL fluid |
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Aid in the diagnosis of disease caused by CMV(eg. viral infections ,pneumonia, and organ transplant related disease |
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None |
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Do not freeze, maintain blood at room temp. Place all specimens in viral medium, unless otherwise noted. |
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Do not freeze. Maintain blood at room temperature; other specimen sources should be refrigerated. |
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| 3 days | |
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Dry swab not in media, leaking container ,wooden shaft swabs |
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Positive for CMV/Negative for CMV |
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| Shell vial or equivalent multiwell plate and conventional culture. | |
| Conventional tissue culture and shell vial cultures. | |
| Shell vial cultures stained at 48 hrs and 4 days after receipt. Cultures positive by shell vial are reported as final. Negatives are continued for 3 weeks, before reporting as final. | |
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Supplemental |
008201 * Denotes Reference Lab test |
| Rhonda Crowe | |
| 2/22/23 |