Specimen Required: Serum OR plasma
Alternate Specimen: Serum OR plasma
Specimen Container: "Red-top tube, lavender-top (EDTA) tube OR green-top (heparin) tube. DO NOT USE A GEL-BARRIER TUBE. The use of gel-barrier tubes is not recommended due to slow absorption of the drug by the gel. Depending on the specimen volume and storage time, the decrease in drug level due to absorption may be clinically significant."
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Stability: 14 days�14 days�14 days
Specimen Required: 10 mL urine submitted in a plastic, leak-proof urine container
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Sterile plastic screw cap urine container
Specimen Volume: 10mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days Refrigerated: 7 days Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Serum
Specimen Container: Red-top tube or gel-barrier tube
Specimen Volume: 0.5 mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature 14 days�Refrigerated 14 days�Frozen 14 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: N/A
Specimen Container: Royal Blue top Serum
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen: 14 days
Specimen Required: Serum OR plamsa
Alternate Specimen: Serum OR plamsa
Specimen Container: Red-top tube, gel-barrier tube OR lavender-top (EDTA) tube
Specimen Volume: 0.8 mL
Specimen Stability: Not Available�Not Available�Not Available
Specimen Required: Aliquot of 24 hour Urine
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: 24 hour Urine Container
Specimen Volume: 5mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 7 days�Refrigerated: 7 days�Frozen: 60 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Gel-barrier tube or red-top tube
Specimen Container: Serum separator tube
Specimen Volume: 3 mL
Specimen Stability: Maintain specimen at room temperature Stability: Room temperature (preferred) up to 5 days Frozen up to 1 year
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Serum Separator Tube
Specimen Container: Red Top, No Gel
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 2 Days �Refrigerated: 1 Week �Frozen: 1 Month
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Serum Separator Tube
Specimen Container: Red Top, No Gel
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temp: 2 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Seperator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 DAYS�Frozen: 1 YEAR
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5 mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Serum
Specimen Container: Red-top tube or gel-barrier tube
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Stability: 14 days�14 days�14 days
Specimen Required: Serum, FROZEN
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Not Available�Not Available�14 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 2
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 14 Days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 2mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 14 Days
Specimen Required: Whole Blood
Alternate Specimen: Yellow Top, Green Top
Specimen Container: Lavander Top Tube (EDTA)
Specimen Volume: 7 mL whole blood, 10 mL amniotic fluid, 20 mg CVS, OR LabCorp buccal swab kit
Specimen Stability: Not Available�Not Available�Not Available
Specimen Required: Pharyngeal specimen collected with APTIMA(R) unisex collection swab and submitted in the APTIMA(R) swab specimentransport tube
Alternate Specimen: Gen-Probe(R) APTIMA(R) swab specimen transport tube
Specimen Container: Gen-Probe(R) APTIMA(R) swab specimen transport tube
Specimen Volume: One swab (pharyngeal)
Specimen Stability: Maintain specimen at room temperature or refrigerate (2 degrees C to 30 degrees C).
Specimen Required: Urine or endocervical swab
Alternate Specimen: Thin Prep Endocervical Swab
Specimen Container: Cobas Collection Kit (Urine or Swab)
Specimen Volume: 2mL - one Swab
Specimen Stability: Maintain specimen at room temperature or refrigerate (2�C to 30�C). for 30 days
Specimen Required: One swab (pharyngeal)
Alternate Specimen: None
Specimen Container: Swab specimen transport tube
Specimen Volume: One swab (pharyngeal)
Specimen Stability: Maintain specimen at room temperature or refrigerate (2�C to 30�C)
Specimen Required: Rectal specimen collected with unisex collection swab
Alternate Specimen: NONE
Specimen Container: swab specimen transport tube
Specimen Volume: One swab (rectal)
Specimen Stability: Maintain specimen at room temperature or refrigerate (2�C to 30�C)
Specimen Required: URINE
Specimen Volume: 10
Specimen Required: Urine
Alternate Specimen: BD container, ThinPrep, Orange aptima, Unisex aptima
Specimen Container: Sterile, screw-cap container
Specimen Volume: 50
Specimen Stability: Urine �Room temperature: 30 days �Refrigerated: 30 days �Frozen: 6 months �Swab �Room temperature: 60 days �Refrigerated: 60 days �Frozen: 6 months
Specimen Required: URINE CUP
Alternate Specimen: BD container
Specimen Container: Swab
Specimen Volume: 2 ml
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days
Specimen Required: Urine
Alternate Specimen: BD container, ThinPrep, Orange aptima, Unisex aptima
Specimen Container: Sterile, screw-cap container
Specimen Volume: 2mL
Specimen Stability: Urine �Room temperature: 30 days �Refrigerated: 30 days �Frozen: 6 months �Swab �Room temperature: 60 days �Refrigerated: 60 days �Frozen: 6 months
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Seperator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Frozen 1year
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Serum
Specimen Container: Red-top tube or gel-barrier tube
Specimen Volume: 0.2 mL
Specimen Stability: Not Available�Not Available�Not Available
Specimen Required: 2 SST, 1 LAV
Specimen Required: 2 SST, 1 LAV
Specimen Required: 2 SST, 1 LAV, 1 URINE
Specimen Required: Whole blood or PurFlock buccal swab kit or Oragene Dx saliva kit
Alternate Specimen: N/A
Specimen Container: Yellow-top (ACD-A) tube or lavender-top (EDTA) tube or PurFlock buccal swab kit or Oragene Dx 500 saliva collection kit
Specimen Volume: 9
Specimen Stability: Whole blood: 14 days at room temperature or 30 days at 4C
Specimen Required: Amniotic fluid or chorionic villus sample (CVS) or cultured cells or cordblood. Direct amniotic fluid or CVS specimen may be submitted; additional culture fee may be applied.
Alternate Specimen: Cordblood: Yellow-top (ACD-A) or lavendar-top (EDTA) tubes
Specimen Container: Amniotic fluid or CVS: Sterile plastic conical tube or T-25 flask.
Specimen Volume: Amniotic fluid: 20 mL or CVS: 20 mg or amniotic fluid and CVS culture: two confluent T-25 flask or 4 mL cordblood. If amniotic fluid or CVS are cultured at another facility, please maintain back-up cultures.
Specimen Stability: Maintain specimen at room temperature. Do not freeze.
Specimen Required: 2 LARGE LAV
Specimen Required: Serum OR plasma
Alternate Specimen: Serum OR plasma
Specimen Container: "Red-top tube OR green-top (heparin) tube. DO NOT USE A GEL-BARRIER tube. The use of gel-barrier tubes is not recommended due to slow absorption of the drug by the gel. Depending on the specimen volume and storage time, the decrease in drug level due to absorption may be clinically significant."
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Stability: 14 days�14 days�14 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Green sodium heparin or Lavender top
Specimen Container: Red Top, No Gel
Specimen Volume: 2mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Green sodium heparin or Lavender top
Specimen Container: Red Top, No Gel
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum OR plasma
Alternate Specimen: Green Top (heparin) Tube
Specimen Container: Red Top Tube
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days�Refrigerated: 14 days�Frozen: 14 days
Specimen Required: Serum or plasma
Alternate Specimen: Red-top tube or green-top (heparin) tube. Do not use a gel-barrier tube.
Specimen Container: Red-top tube or green-top (heparin) tube. Do not use a gel-barrier tube.
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature 14 days�Refrigerated 14 days�Frozen 14 days
Specimen Required: Whole blood
Alternate Specimen: Lavender top
Specimen Container: Green top or Royal blue
Specimen Volume: 2mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 14 days �Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen (-20 �C): 14 days
Specimen Required: Urine (random)
Alternate Specimen: Plastic urine container without preservative
Specimen Container: Plastic urine container without preservative
Specimen Volume: 10 mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature 3 days�Frozen
Specimen Required: Plasma, FROZEN
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Green Lithium Heparin
Specimen Volume: 5
Specimen Stability: FROZEN
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 3mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 1 day �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 14 days
Specimen Required: 2 SST
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Required: 1 SST, 1 LAV, 1 RED
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.2
Specimen Stability: 14 days�14 days�3 months
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 2mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 2
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 8 hours Refrigerated: 15 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 8 hours Refrigerated: 15 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Seperator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: "Plasma with Trasylol(R), FROZEN"
Alternate Specimen: "Plasma with Trasylol(R), FROZEN"
Specimen Container: "Lavender-top (EDTA) tube, (chilled)"
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Stability: Unstable�Unstable�7 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Serum Seperator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 8 hours�Frozen: 7 days
Specimen Required: 24 hour Urine
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: 24 hour Urine Container
Specimen Volume: 25mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 7 days �Refrigerated: 30 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Gray Top
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 72 hours �Frozen: Unacceptable
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: 2 Serum Separator Tubes
Specimen Container: 2 Gray top tubes
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 7 days�Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: Serum Separator Tube
Specimen Container: Gray Top Tube
Specimen Volume: 5mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 72 hours �Frozen: Unacceptable
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: 3 Serum Separator Tubes
Specimen Container: 3 Gray top tubes
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 7 days�Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: Serum Separator Tube
Specimen Container: Grey top tube
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 7 days�Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: 4 Serum Separator Tubes
Specimen Container: 4 Gray top tubes
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 7 days�Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: 5 Serum Separator Tubes
Specimen Container: 5 Gray Top Tubes
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 7 days�Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: 6 Serum Separator Tubes
Specimen Container: 6 Gray top tubes
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 7 days�Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: 7 Serum Separator Tubes
Specimen Container: 7 Gray top tubes
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 7 days�Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Urine
Alternate Specimen: 24 hr Urine
Specimen Container: Sterile screw cap container
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 72 hours preserved specimen �Refrigerated: 24 hours unpreserved pediatric specimen
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Gray Top Tube
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 24 hours �Refrigerated: 72 hours �Frozen: Unacceptable
Specimen Required: Any fresh body fluid
Alternate Specimen: Any fresh body fluid
Specimen Container: Sterile container
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Stability: 14 days�14 days�14 days
Specimen Required: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
Alternate Specimen: N/A
Specimen Container: Clean sterile tube
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Specimen Stability: Refrigerate
Specimen Required: CSF
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Plastic screw-cap vial
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: Unacceptable �Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Lavender Top Tube (EDTA)
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Lavender Top Tube (EDTA)
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 48 hours �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: Unacceptable
Specimen Required: Whole blood
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Lavender Top Tube (EDTA)
Specimen Volume: 8
Specimen Stability: RBC: Stable refrigerated for 72 hours. G6PD: stable refrigerated for seven days.
Specimen Required: Whole blood
Alternate Specimen: Whole blood
Specimen Container: Two lavender-top (EDTA) tubes; or one green-top (heparin) tube AND one lavender-top (EDTA) tube; or one yellow-top (ACD) tube AND one lavender-top (EDTA) tube
Specimen Volume: 8 mL (4 mL in each of two tubes)
Specimen Stability: Not Available�Not Available�Not Available
Specimen Required: Whole blood
Alternate Specimen: Whole blood
Specimen Container: Two lavender-top (EDTA) tubes; or one green-top (heparin) tube AND one lavender-top (EDTA) tube; or one yellow-top (ACD) tube AND one lavender-top (EDTA) tube
Specimen Volume: 8 mL (4 mL in each of two tubes)
Specimen Stability: Not Available�Not Available�Not Available
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red-top tube or gel-barrier tube
Specimen Container: Red-top tube or gel-barrier tube
Specimen Volume: 0.5 mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature
Specimen Required: Whole blood
Alternate Specimen: Whole blood
Specimen Container: Yellow-top ACD-B tube (acid citrate dextrose) or yellow-top ACD-A tube
Specimen Volume: 500 uL
Specimen Stability: 14 days�14 days�7 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.2
Specimen Stability: 14 days�14 days�3 months
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: 1 LAVENDER, 1 SST
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Serum Seperator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 7 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Plasma
Alternate Specimen: No aletrnative specimen
Specimen Container: Green top Lithium heparin
Specimen Volume: 1mL
Specimen Stability: Frozen: 14 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5 mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days �Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5 mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days �Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.2mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days �Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.2
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days �Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Specimen, any source. Air-dried smear
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Swab specimens
Specimen Volume: 1 slide
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 2 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days �Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 days �Refrigerated: 14 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5 mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 5 mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 14 Days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 5ML
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 1 day �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 14 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.2
Specimen Stability: Not Available�Not Available�Not Available
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 Days�Refrigerated: 14 Days�Frozen: 30 Days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 14 Days�Refrigerated: 14 Days�Frozen: 30 Days
Specimen Required: Culture Swabs
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: SWAB
Specimen Volume: 1-2 swabs
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 2 Days
Specimen Required: Culture Swabs
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: SWAB
Specimen Volume: 1-2 swabs
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 2 Days
Specimen Required: Swab of vaginal and rectal specimen
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: Single or double bacterial swab in Amies agar gel transport or equivalent
Specimen Volume: Single or double bacterial swab in Amies agar gel transport or equivalent (non-nutritive transport medium)
Specimen Stability: Specimen is stable for 24 hours at room temperature. If arrival at lab will extend beyond 24 hours, then refrigerate.
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 1 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator tube
Specimen Volume: 2 ml
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 8 hours �Refrigerated: 24 hours �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 1
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 1 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Alternate Specimen: Red Top
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5mL
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 7 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 7 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 30 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Separator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Serum
Alternate Specimen: Red Top Tube
Specimen Container: Serum Seprator Tube (SST)
Specimen Volume: 0.5
Specimen Stability: Room temperature: 5 days �Refrigerated: 7 days �Frozen: 28 days
Specimen Required: Stool
Alternate Specimen: No alternative specimen
Specimen Container: White top cup
Specimen Volume: 40ml
Specimen Stability: refrigirated
Specimen Required: TninPrep
Alternate Specimen: SurePath Kit
Specimen Container: ThinPrep kit
Specimen Volume: 15 mL
Specimen Stability: Room Temperature: 14 days Refrigerated: 21 days�Frozen: 90 days
