1213 results found
Tube colour: Light Green
Collection Requirements: Transport at Room Temperature within 12-18hrs of collection, AVOID REFRIGERATION
Availability: Mon-Thursday; on request
Tube colour: Yellow top universal
Collection Requirements: Urine, Transport at Room Temperature within 12-18hrs of collection, AVOID REFRIGERATION
Availability: Mon-Thursday; on request
Tube colour: Light Green
Collection Requirements: Transport at Room Temperature, AVOID REFRIGERATION
Availability: Daily (Mon - Fri)
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: On request
Tube colour: Lavender
Collection Requirements: 9 ml EDTA (Time critical, see notes)
Availability: Monthly
Tube colour: Dark Green
Collection Requirements: 6mL Lithium Heparin with no Gel
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Green No Gel, Gold No Gel, Pink / Purple
Collection Requirements: 4.5mL Lithium heparin or Serum with no gel or EDTA
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Lavender
Collection Requirements: 3mL EDTA. Send to lab ASAP.
Availability: Weekdays
Tube colour: Light Green, Gold
Collection Requirements: 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin or 8.5 ml Serum
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Pink, Lavender, Sterile Container
Collection Requirements: 6-9 ml EDTA, sterile container
Availability: Monthly
Tube colour: Lavender
Collection Requirements: 9 ml EDTA tube
Availability: Daily (Mon - Fri)
Tube colour: CSF Sterile Tube Pack
Collection Requirements: Csf
Availability: Daily (Mon - Fri)
Listeria PCR (from Blood culture)
Tube colour: Aerobic: grey plastic cap. Anaerobic: Purple plastic cap
Collection Requirements: 8-10 ml blood in each culture bottle (Anaerobic & Aerobic)
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Light Green, Gold
Collection Requirements: 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin or 8.5 ml Serum
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Weekly
Tube colour: Light Blue
Collection Requirements: 3x Sodium Citrate Tube (Coagulation)
Availability: Fortnightly (unless by prior arrangement)
Lyme Disease Ab (Borrelia Serology)
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Weekly
Tube colour: Yellow top universal
Collection Requirements: Tissue
Availability: Weekly
Tube colour: Lithium Heparin With No Gel
Collection Requirements: Lithium Heparin with no Gel . See notes below
Lymphocyte Subsets- CD3, CD4, CD8, CD19 and CD56
Tube colour: Lavender
Collection Requirements: 1 x 3mL EDTA tube
Availability: Weekdays
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) Virus (LCMV) PCR
Tube colour: Yellow top sterile universal container, CSF collection tube
Collection Requirements: Blood (EDTA), Blood (Whole), Blood (ACD) Tissue, CSF, Urine. Aspirate
Availability: Daily (Mon - Fri), expected result up to 2 weeks
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) Virus (LCMV) Serology
Tube colour: Lavender
Collection Requirements: 9 ml EDTA (Serum)
Availability: On request
Lymphogranuloma venereum PCR (swab)
Tube colour: Copan Eswab liquid Amies EWL
Collection Requirements: Rectal / anal swab collected in liquid Amies
Availability: weekly
Lymphogranuloma venereum PCR (Tissue)
Tube colour: Yellow top universal
Collection Requirements: fresh biopsy specimens
Availability: weekly
Tube colour: Light Green
Collection Requirements: 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin
Availability: Monthly
Tube colour: Lavender
Collection Requirements: 9 ml EDTA
Availability: On request
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: On request
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Monthly
Tube colour: Light Green, Gold
Collection Requirements: 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin or 8.5 ml Serum
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Urine (24 Hr Acid)
Collection Requirements: 10 ml Urine (24 Hr acid)
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Dark Blue (Trace Metal)
Collection Requirements: 1 x Trace element tube K2EDTA (dark blue top) with a minimum 4mL of blood [DO NOT centrifuge]
Availability: Weekly/Fortnightly
Tube colour: Urine (acid)
Collection Requirements: 10 ml Urine (acid)
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Pink / Purple
Collection Requirements: 3mL EDTA
Availability: 24 hours. Clinical Notes must be included, including recent travel history .
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Daily (Mon - Fri)
Tube colour: Royal Blue
Collection Requirements: 6 ml Trace Metal Tube
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Urine (random)
Collection Requirements: 10 ml Urine (24 hour)
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Urine (random)
Collection Requirements: 10 ml Urine (random)
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Red
Collection Requirements: 6 ml Serum with no Gel. Send to pathology immediately for centrifugation and storage at -70C. Aliquots must be prepared and frozen within 4 hours of collection.
Min vol: 3 aliquots and 500uL
On recipt of specimen: Allow to clot at room temperature (20-25 C) for up to 60 mins. Centrifuge within 1 hour of collection, after clotting, at 3800 rpm for 10 minutes. Immediately transfer approximately 500 uL of serum into 3 aliquot tubes (Sarstedt 2 mL). Immediately freeze all aliquots at -70 C until transport to RCH.
Transport on dry-ice, do not allow to thaw prior or during transport.
Availability: Fortnightly, TAT: Fortnightly
Marburg , Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Virus serology
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml Serum tube. Please contact the Pathology Laboratory BEFORE collection.
Availability: On request
Marburg virus, Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Virus PCR (blood)
Tube colour: Lavender
Collection Requirements: 9 ml EDTA. Please contact the Pathology Laboratory BEFORE collection.
Availability: On request
Marburg, Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Virus PCR (throat swab)
Collection Requirements: Throat swab collected in Copan e-swab (liquid Amies) pink lid. Please contact the Pathology Laboratory BEFORE collection.
Availability: On request
Maternal Serum Screen 1st Trimester
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Fortnightly