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Test Code ANAC Culture, Anaerobic/Aerobic Bacteria

Important Note

Specimen Types NOT ACCEPTED:

  • Catheter tips
  • Hardware
  • Oral wounds or tissue
  • Respiratory, including BAL, ET aspirate, NP swab, oral or throat swabs
  • Saliva
  • Stool (feces)
  • Swabs not in anaerobic transport media
  • Swabs received in oxidized (blue) anaerobe transport medium
  • Vaginal
  • Urine

Specimen and Container/Tube

Tissue, fluid or aspirate

Use of swabs is strongly discouraged.

Anaerobic transport tubes available from Microbiology lab if in-house (call 773-702-6133) or order through Oracle #131524. A red vacutainer tube can be used for larger volumes.

Collection Instructions

Offsite Collection Instructions

See UCMC Collection Instructions

UCMC Collection Instructions

Specimen Type: Tissue or Fluid only. Swabs are strongly discouraged.

Specimen Volume and Container: Anaerobic transport tube available from the Microbiology lab, call 773-702-6133. Vacutainer tube.
Specimen Transport: 24 hr, no refrigeration
 

See Microbiology Specimen Collection:
 

  • See category “Anaerobe”, Table 1 BACTERIOLOGY, CHLAMYDIA, MYCOBACTERIOLOGY (AFB), MYCOLOGY, VIROLOGY

Specimen Handling and Transport Instructions

Transpot Instructions

See UCMC Collection Instructions

Rejection Criteria

Whole blood/unspun samples greater than 6 hours will be rejected.

Reference Values

Negative

Critical Values

 

All positive  culture

 

 

 

 

All

Test Components

Gram stain

Aerobic culture

Anaerobic culture

Methodology

Conventional Aerobic and Anaerobic Media

CPT Codes

87070, 87075, 87205

LOINC Codes

30087070, 30687075, 30687205

Additional Information

Swabs are unacceptable unless tissue or aspirate is not obtainable.
If sending tissue, do not push tissue into agar media of tube.

Turnaround Time

Gram stain only: Results within 1 hour of receipt in Microbiology lab, if requested STAT.

Day(s) Performed

24/7

STAT DAY(S) AND TIME(S) PERFORMED

Available

Synonyms/Search Keywords

Anaerobic Culture

Last Reviewed Date

08/12/2022