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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Aeromonas species
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
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FDA
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Afipia species (Cat Scratch Fever)
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Identification
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Pure culture on blood or chocolate agar slant
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12-21 days
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Isolation and identification
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Blood, tissue
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12-21 days
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Bacillus species
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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10-14 days
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Bacillus cereus
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
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FDA
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Bordetella pertussis (Pertussis)
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Identification
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Pure culture on Regan-Lowe or Bordet- Gengou agar slant
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Negative 10 days
Positive 4-6 days, results called
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CDC
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Isolation from clinical specimen
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Nasopharangeal swab in Regan-Lowe transport, ≤ 3 days may be shipped ambient, > 3 days ship on wet ice
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Negative 10 days, positive 4-6 days called to submitter
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Bartonella (Cat Scratch fever)
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Identification
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Pure culture on blood or chocolate agar slant
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12-21 days
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Isolation from clinical specimens
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Blood or tissue, frozen at -70˚C and shipped on dry ice or refrigerated at 4˚C and shipped on wet ice.
(SPS is toxic to some Bartonella)
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negative 21 days
positive 12-21 days
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Campylobacter
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar blood or chocolate slant, campy gas pack
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4-7 days
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CDC
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Isolation from clinical specimen
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Stool specimen in Cary-Blair, on wet ice packs
Blood in blood culture bottle
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Negative 3-5 days
Positive 3-7 days
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Corynebacterium species
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-10 days
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae
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Identification, and toxin testing
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Pure culture on agar slant, preferrably Loeffler’s
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4-7 days
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CDC
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Isolation and identification
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Swab in stuart’s transport, aimes transport, silica gel, or on loeffler’s slant
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2-5 days
Positive results called to submitter
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Chlamydia trachomatis
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Genetic probe
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Swab in GENPROBE transport tube
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2-4 days
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CDC
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Amplified Genetic probe *Limited at present to approved sites
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Urine, room temp- 24 hour transport; refrigerated 25-76 hr transport
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2-4 days
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Escherichia coli
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
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Escherichia coli O157:H7
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Identification and Serotyping; Shiga toxin testing
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
Serologically O157:H7 results called to submitter
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CDC
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Isolation, identification, and serotyping; Shiga toxin testing
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Stool specimen in Cary-Blair, Aimes, or Stuarts transport, in broth or McCorkey broth on wet ice packs
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Shiga toxin producing E. coli (EHEC)
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Identification and Serotyping; Shiga toxin testing
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Pure culture on agar slant
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7-10 days; referred to CDC if necessary
Positive toxin results called to submitter
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CDC
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Isolation, identification, and serotyping; Shiga toxin testing
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Stool specimen in Cary-Blair, Aimes, or Stuarts transport, on wet ice packs; Stool specimens on broth or MaCorkey broth, < 7 days old on wet ice packs, > 7 days old on dry ice
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Enterococcus species
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Identification and serotying; Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Vancomycin resistance (Epidemiological data only)
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Pure culture on agar slant.
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4-10 days
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Fastidious gram negative or gram positive rods
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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14-21 days
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Haemophilus influenzae
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Identification and serotyping
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Pure culture on Chocolate agar slant
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4-7 days
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Haemophilus ducreyii
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Identification
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Pure culture on chocolate agar slant
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10-14 days
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Identification
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Lesion scrapings, urogenital swab from infected area, transported on wet ice
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Negative 21 days
Positive 7-21 days
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Legionella species
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Identification and DFA
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Pure culture on BCYE slant
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4-7 days
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CDC
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Isolation and identification
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Sputum, bronchial washings, tracheal aspirates, lung biopsy, shipped on wet ice
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Culture: Negative 15 days
Positive 3-15 days called to submitter
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Listeria species
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Identification
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Pure cultures on non-glucose containing agar slants
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4-7 days
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CDC
FDA
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Isolation and identification
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Blood, CSF, amniotic fluid, placental tissue, fetal tissue; shipped on wet ice within 48 hours of collection
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Negative 21 days
Positive 5-14 days called to submitter
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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Identification , antimicrobial susceptibility studies to ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, tetracycline, and penicillin ( for epidemiological studies only)
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Pure cultures on chocolate agar slants
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4-7 days
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CDC
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Isolation and identification, antimicrobial susceptibility studies to ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, tetracycline, and penicillin ( for epidemiological studies only)
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Throat, rectum, or other non-urogenital sites, or urogenital swabs on suspected sexual abuse cases submitted on Thayer-Martin, transgrow, or Martin-Lewis media
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3-7 days
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Neisseria meningiditis
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Identification and serotyping
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Pure cultures (isolated from sterile sites) on blood or chocolate agar slants
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3-7 days
Group C called to submitter
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CDC
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Pasturella species
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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7-14 days
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Plesiomonas shigelloides
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
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FDA
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Identification, Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Vancomycin resistance (for epidemiological purposes only), TSST-1 toxin for Toxic Shock syndrome
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Pure culture on agar slant.
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3-7 days
Toxin positive results called to submitter
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CDC
FDA
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Isolation and Identification
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Stool specimens on wet ice (Outbreak situations only)
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2-4 days
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Streptococcus Group A
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Identification, serogrouping
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Pure cultures on agar slants
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3-7 days
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CDC
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Isolation and Identification, and serogrouping
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Throat swabs in stuarts or Aimes transport. (Outbreak situations only)
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2-4 days
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Streptococcus Group B
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Identification, serogrouping
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Pure cultures on agar slants
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3-7 days
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CDC
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Isolation, identification, and serogrouping
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Vaginal swabs
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2-4 days
Positive results called to submitter
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Vibrio cholerae O1
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Identificaiton and seortyping
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Pure culture on agar slant
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2-7 days
Positive called to submitter within 48 hours
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FDA
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Isolation, identification, and serotyping
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Stool specimen in Cary-Blair on wet ice
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2-10 days
Positive called to submitter
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Vibrio cholerae non-O1
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Identificaiton and seortyping
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
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FDA
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Isolation, identification, and serotyping
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Stool specimen in Cary-Blair on wet ice
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2-7 days
Positive called to submitter
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus
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Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
|
FDA
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Vibrio vulnificus
|
Identification
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Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
|
CDC
FDA
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Vibrio sp.
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Identification
|
Pure culture on agar slant
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4-7 days
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Organism
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Testing offered
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What and How to Submit
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Expected turnaround time for results
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Additional Information
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Yersinia enterocolitica and other species
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Identification
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Pure cultures on agar slants
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4-7 days
|
FDA
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Isolation, identification
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Stool in Cary-Blair, Stuarts, or Aimes transport, on wet ice
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4-7 days
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