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Last Updated: April 24, 2024 @ 9:13 am
4404	Culture - Fungus, Skin
Specimen:	Collect:	Skin Scrapings in Slide
	Submit:	Skin Scrapings in Slide. Submit Ambient.
	Special Handling:	With an ethanol (70%) gauze square, briskly clean the lesion to include the entire periphery. Sterile distilled water or sterile saline may be substituted for ethanol, especially if a yeast infection is suspected. If the lesion is inflamed or contains fissures, the lesion should be cleaned with gauze soaked in sterile, distilled water. With a sterile scalpel, scrape material from the periphery of the lesion. If dried exudates are present, remove it with sterile forceps. Be sure to collect any moist exudates. Transport to laboratory on clean microscope slides taped together.
	Stability:	Ambient: 2 Week(s); Refrigerated: 1 Week(s); Frozen: Unacceptable; Incubated: Unacceptable
Methodology:	Culture
Performed:	Sun-Sat
Reported:	4-5 Week(s)
CPT Codes:	87101
Interpretive Data:	Please see report for interpretive data.
Components:	4404 - FUNGUS CULTURE, SKIN 4935 - REVIEW INDICATED

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