| SPECIMEN REQUIREMENTS | SPECIMEN: Blood, urine, sputum, eye, ear, genital, wounds, and abscesses. CONTAINER: Bacterial Culturettes, BACTEC blood culture bottles, BD Urine C&S Preservative (Gray top), sputum collection bottles. COLLECTION: Blood Cultures -Aseptically collect 8 ml for each bottle (BACTEC Plus Aerobic/F and BACTEC Lytic Anaerobic/F) Urine- Clean-catch midstream collection, 4 ml in a BD vacutainer with UA preservative tube. Sputum- expectoration obtained after a deep cough collected in sterile sputum collection bottle. Bacterial Culturettes are used for genital, eye, ear, wounds and abscesses. TRANSPORT CONDITIONS: Room Temperature (25±5°C): 1 day (Blood cultures and genital swabs) Refrigerated (5±3°C): 1 day (Swabs and sputum) 3 days (preserved urine) Frozen (-15±5°C): Unacceptable |
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