Mycology, Mycobacteriology, and Other Reference Microbiology Testing
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Source or Apparent Specimen Received |
Incorrect Test Requested or Written Request |
Default Action (Change) |
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Acid-fast bacterial growing on media |
183753 − Acid-fast (Mycobacteria) Smear and Culture With Reflex to Identification |
183770 − Acid-fast Organism Identification by DNA Probe and/or Sequencing |
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Acid-fast bacterial growing on media |
088161 − Acid-fast (Mycobacteria) Antibiotic Susceptibilities, or incorrect AFB susceptibility test number |
Change to appropriate AFB susceptibility test code based upon the AFB identification |
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Bacterial swab or sterile container with specimen |
182212 − Organism Identification, Yeast |
182776 − Yeast Only, Culture |
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Bacterial swab or sterile container with specimen |
Fungus Culture |
008482 − Fungus (Mycology) Culture |
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Bacterial swab or sterile container with specimen |
Yeast Culture, Candida Culture |
182776 − Yeast Only, Culture |
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Bacterial swab or sterile container with specimen |
Dermatophyte |
182337 − Dermatophyte Culture |
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Bacterial swab or sterile container with specimen |
KOH, Fungus Stain |
008136 − Fungus Stain |
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Blood in QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus In-Tube collection kit tubes |
No test requested |
182879 − QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus or 182893 − QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus (Client Incubated) |
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CSF |
Cryptococcus |
008482 − Fungus (Mycology) Culture and 160747 − Cryptococcus Antigen, CSF |
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Mold growing on media |
Yeast identification or 182212 − Organism Identification, Yeast, or 008482 − Fungus (Mycology) Culture |
008474 − Organism Identification, Mold; 183285 − Organism Identification by Sequencing will be added at an additional charge, as necessary |
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Mold growing on media |
Antifungal susceptibility testing (yeast) test numbers |
Change to appropriate test numbers for mold susceptibility based upon the requested antifungal agents |
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Multiple specimen types (hair, skin, or nails) |
008482 − Fungus (Mycology) Culture or 188243 − Fungus Culture With Stain |
008482 or 188243 − for each specimen type based on original number of specimens |
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Mycobacterium isolate growing on media |
Request is for susceptibility testing only, and identification is not compatible with the appearance of the named organism or the susceptibility result obtained is inconsistent with the species listed |
183770 − Acid-fast Organism Identification by DNA Probe and/or Sequencing will be added on at an additional charge |
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Serum |
Cryptococcus |
183025 − Cryptococcus Antigen |
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Sterile container with specimen |
088161 − Acid-fast (Mycobacteria) Antibiotic Susceptibilities |
183764 − Acid-fast (Mycobacteria) Smear and Culture With Reflex to Identification and Susceptibility Testing |
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Sterile container with specimen obviously not urine |
Legionella |
188227 − Legionella Culture and Legionella pneumophila, DFA |
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Sterile container with urine |
Legionella |
182246 − Legionella pneumophila Urinary Antigen |
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Three specimens, usually sputa |
183753 or 183764 − Acid-fast (Mycobacteria) Smear and Culture With Reflex to Identification Without or With Susceptibility indicated only once |
183753 or 183764 − for each specimen based on original number of specimens |
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Yeast growing on media |
Mold identification or 008474 − Organism Identification, Mold, or 008482 − Fungus (Mycology) Culture or 182776 − Yeast Only, Culture |
182212 − Organism Identification, Yeast |
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Yeast growing on media |
Antifungal susceptibility testing, and identification is not provided or is inconsistent with submitted isolate |
182212 − Organism Identification, Yeast will be added at an additional charge |
Frozen Gel Packs. To ensure specimen integrity during warm weather, follow these Instructions for Use of frozen gel packs and specimen lockboxes.