Printable Test Catalog - OU Medicine

viral transport media tube. Refrigerated following collection
and during transport.
TUBE OR CONTAINER: Viral trunsport media
TEST INCLUDES: Influenza Shell Vial B and Viral Respiratory
Culture
TEST AVAILABLITY: Daily
TURNAROUND TIME: 48-96 hours
METHODOLOGY: Shell vial
CPT: 87254; 87252
[VINBVC] INFLUENZA B CULTURE
SPECIMEN REQUIRED: Any respiratory sample; transport
immediately
COLLECTION INSTRUCTIONS:
Nasopharyngeal wash+NP:
1. Draw up 1-2 mL of sterile saline into a 3-5 mL syringe.
2. Remove the needle from the syringe and put on a butterfly
with a large tubing. Cut the tubing to a length of 2-3".
3. Place the tubing in the nasopharyngeal passage. Inject the
saline rapidly and draw back rapidly.
4. Inject saline and nasal material into the viral transport
medium. If viral transport medium is not available, the NP
wash may be added to 1.O mL of trypticase soy broth or
sterile saline.
5. After or before doing the wash, use a dacron NP swab to do
a good epithelial cell scraping of the nasopharyngeal area
Place and cut or break the swab into the same vial as the
wash. (Immunofluorescent testing is done on the epithelial
cells the combination of both the wash and nasopharyngeal
scraping are essential to obtain enough cells to perform
the test.)
Alternate NP collection instructions:
1. Insert a type 1 (NP) dacron tipped, aluminum-shafted swab
into nasopharyngeal passage for 1 minute.
2. Cut or break the swab into viral transport medium or have
the patient gargle 3mL of sterile saline for 10 seconds;
expell the gargle into a sterile container.
TUBE OR CONTAINER: Viral transport tube
SPECIAL HANDLING: Keep specimen refrigerated
ORDERING MODULE: MIC
TEST INCLUDES: Influenza B culture ONLY
TEST AVAILABILITY: Monday-Saturday
TURNAROUND TIME: 10-12 days
REFERENCE RANGE: No growth
METHODOLOGY: Culture
CLINICAL USE: Isolate and identify Influenza type B
CPT: 87252
[VIPER] RUSSELL VIPER VENOM TIME
SPECIMEN REQUIRED: Frozen plasma