91295 Febrile Antibodies Panel

Specimen:

Collect:

One 7.5 mL SST

Also Acceptable
One 10 mL Red Top

Submit:

3 mL (Min:1.5 mL) Serum. Submit Refrigerated. Submit in a Standard Transport Tube.

Special Handling:

Avoid Repeated Freeze/Thaw Cycles
If acute and convalescent samples being submitted, label as such. Convalescent sample must be received in lab within 30 days.
Separate from cells ASAP

Rejection Criteria:

Bacterially Contaminated Samples
Heat inactivated

Stability:

Ambient: 2 Day(s); Refrigerated: 2 Week(s); Frozen: 12 Month(s); Incubated: Unacceptable

Methodology:

Semi-Quantitative Indirect Fluorescent Antibody ; Semi-Quantitative Direct Agglutination; Qualitative ImmunoDOT

Performed:

Mon-Fri

Reported:

3-6 Day(s)

CPT Codes:

86622	86000x6
86757x4

Interpretive Data:

Please see report for interpretive data.

Components:

93588 - BRUCELLA AB	93083 - ROCKY MT AB, IgG
93084 - ROCKY MT AB, IgM	93599 - TYPHUS AB, IgG
93590 - TYPHUS AB, IgM	93616 - SALM O TYPE Vi
93299 - SALM O TYPE D	93300 - SALM H TYPE A
93301 - SALM H TYPE B	93302 - SALM H TYPE D