| Methodology: |
Direct Fluorescent Antibody Stain
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Sun-Sat
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| Reported: |
Within 24 hours
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| Specimen Required: |
Collect: Vesicle swab (first three days of rash), tissue, or skin scrapings. Swab should be rolled in base of fresh vesicle to obtain cells. Source of specimen is preferred.
Storage/Transport Temperature: Specimen in viral transport media at 2-8°C.
Submit specimen according to Biological Substance, Category B, shipping guidelines.
Unacceptable Conditions: CSF, whole blood, bone marrow. Dry swabs, calcium alginate swabs, and wood swabs.
Stability (collection to initiation of testing): Ambient: 4 hours; Refrigerated: 3 days; Frozen: Unacceptable
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