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guide to specimen management in clinical microbiology
Specimen management in clinical microbiology
Communicating laboratory needs -- Basic issues -- Selecting a representative specimen -- Requisitions -- Specimen packaging and transport -- Color-coded vacuum tubes -- Specimen priority -- Specimen rejection criteria -- Rejection statements or addenda to laboratory reports -- Specialty testing -- Laboratory reports.
Specimen management policies and rationale -- Collection times -- Collection procedures -- Specimen transport -- Specimen processing: general -- Sputum transport -- Urine specimens -- Wound specimens -- Spinal fluid specimens -- Throat and nasopharyngeal specimens -- Miscellaneous specimens -- Specimen collection and processing -- Gastrointestinal specimens -- Rectal and anal swab specimens -- Stool or feces for culture or parasitology studies.
Stool specimen collection directions -- Pinworm eggs collected by adhesive tape preparation -- Gastric contents -- Duodenal contents -- Sigmoidoscopy specimens for amebiasis -- Gastric-antral biopsy samples for Helicobacter pylori -- Urine specimens -- General information -- Clean-catch urine -- Catheterized urine for culture -- Suprapubic aspirate for urine cultures -- Urine specimen: ileal conduit -- Cystoscopic specimens: bilateral ureteral catheterization -- Urine: bladder washout.
Wound specimens -- General information -- Skin and contagious tissues specimens -- Ear (otitis media) specimens -- Eye specimens -- Genital specimens -- General information -- Cervical or endocervical specimens -- Genital smears for herpes -- Urethral and penile specimens -- Body fluid specimens -- Cerebrospinal fluid -- Pleural-thoracentesis fluid -- Abdominal-peritoneal fluid -- Blood specimens -- Specimens collected for serum bactericidal level (Schlichter test) -- Respiratory specimens -- General information -- Sputum
Bronchoscopy-bronchial washing -- Tracheal aspirate -- Transtracheal aspirate -- Throat specimens -- Nasal specimens -- Nasopharyngeal specimens - Viruses, chlamydiae, rickettsiae, and fungi -- Viral specimens -- Chlamydia culture -- Rickettsial specimens -- Fungal specimens -- Specimen management summary tables -- Bacteriology and mycology specimen collection guidelines -- specimen guide for virus isolation -- Virology specimen collection guidelines -- Parasitology: anatomical sites containing diagnostic stages of selected parasites -- Parasitology specimen collection guidelines.
Includes bibliographical references (page 149) and index.