A guide to specimen management in clinical microbiology /
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
ASM Press,
[1996]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.