Microbiology Specimen Submission Job Aids
General Guidance
- Accessing Test Results via the DSHS Results Web Portal
- General Submission and Shipping Guidance
- Keeping Refrigerated Specimens Cold
- Shipping Diagnostic Stool Specimens
Texas Notifiable Conditions
Test-Specific Guidance
- Cryptosporidium Specimens
- Cyclospora cayetanensis Specimens
- Drinking Water Samples, for Coliform and Escherichia coli
- Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Screening Specimens
- Gonorrhea Susceptibility Testing Specimens
- Influenza Surveillance Specimens
- Malaria Specimens
- Mpox Specimens
- Norovirus Specimens
- Rabies Specimens: Packing and Shipping Guidance
- Rabies Specimens: Results Web Portal Access
- Rickettsial Testing
- TB Cold Box Packing Guidelines
- TB Specimens: Ordering TB Collection and Shipping Supplies
- TB Specimens: Patient Self-Collect Guidance
- TB Specimens: Patient Self-Collect Guidance (Spanish)