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Willis-Knighton Laboratory Services Guide

 

Mayo Clinic Laboratories

Test Code HSVGC Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Culture and Typing-LabCorp #008250

Specimen Requirements

Acceptable Specimens: 

Vesicular Fluid, ulcerated lesions, pharyngeal and throat swabs, urine, cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), autopsy and biopsy material, eye exudates, vaginal swabs

 

Specimen Volume:

1mL of fluid, or 0.5g tissue in Viral Transport Media

Transport Temperature/Stability

Transport Container:

Viral Transport Media

 

Preferred Transport Temperature:

Refrigerated (cold packs)

 

Specimen Stability:

Refrigerated:  7 days

Performing Laboratory

Laboratory Corporation of America