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