|
Test |
Value | Comments |
| Detection of any infectious
agent: |
By: | |
| Blood | Positive Culture , Smear or Rapid Antigen | Acid Fast Bacillus(AFB), bacterial, fungal, parasitic |
| Bone Marrow | Positive Culture or Smear | AFB, bacterial, fungal, viral,
parasitic |
| Body Fluid
(Except gastrointestinal fluid or urine sources) |
Positive Culture or Smear | AFB, bacterial, fungal, viral,
parasitic |
| CSF or other Central Nervous System specimen | Positive Culture, Smear, or
Antigen detection |
AFB, bacterial, fungal, viral
(except Enterovirus), parasitic |
| Eye / Ocular | Positive Culture, Smear, or Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) | AFB, bacterial, fungal, viral,
parasitic |
| Tissue | Positive Culture or Smear | AFB, bacterial, fungal, viral,
parasitic |
| Detection of specific
infectious agent |
By | In |
| Mycobacterium sp., Acid Fast
Bacillus (AFB) (M. tuberculosis) |
Positive stain, culture, NAT,
and/or resistance to primary antituberculosis agents |
|
| Zygomycete | Positive Culture | Nasal, Sinus |
| Select Agents and other highly
pathogenic organisms (Bacillus anthracis, Brucella spp., Burkholderia mallei, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Coccidiodes immitis, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis, and C. diphtheriae, Salmonella typhi, Vibrio cholera) |
Positive Culture and/or positive probe for C. immitis |