CDOS

M tuberculosis Complex PCR

Test Code: 824009

Performing Lab: LabCorp

CPT Code: 87556 001

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Specimen Type

Preferred Specimens: CSF, ocular fluid, BAL, bronchial washing, sputum, stool, fresh tissue, bone, bone marrow, or urine. Acceptable Specimens: Digested respiratory specimens treated with N-Nacetyl-L-cysteine (NALC)/NaOH (eg, BAL, bronchial washing, respiratory fluid, sputum, or tracheal secretion), as are NALC/NaOH-treated gastric washings.

Specimen Container

Sterile container, urine bottle, stool container

Volume

1 mL bone marrow aspirate, ocular, urine, CSF,BAL, bronchial washing, sputum. 3 mL if PCR ordered with smear and culture. 10g Stool, 10mm Tissue, bone or bone marrow.

Minimum Volume

0.5 mL bone marrow aspirate, ocular, urine, CSF, BAL, bronchial washing, sputum. 3 mL if PCR ordered with smear and culture. Stool 5 g, 5mm Tissue, bone or bone marrow.

Specimen Handling

Specimen source is required.

Unacceptable Conditions

Blood, specimen in anaerobe vial or viral transport medium (including but not limited to M4, M5, BD viral transport media, thioglycolate broth), swabs, tissues in formalin fluid, specimens greater than 7 days old.

Temperature

Refrigerated

Methodology

Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Stability

Room Temperature: Unacceptable
Refrigerated: 7 days
Frozen: 7 days

Result Code	Result Name	LOINC
824010	MTB Comp. PCR, Specimen Source	31208-2
824013	MTB Complex PCR, Result	38379-4

Reflex Order Code	Reflex Order Name
824073	Mycobacteria Culture, Conc

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