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For adults, blood taken into a 4mL EDTA tube sent immediately to the laboratory on ice (send 2 tubes on ice if full gut hormone profile required).
A CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGIST Information : Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Protocol Action Card on specimen collection and transport 4ml of blood taken into an EDTA
Sample requirements For adults, blood taken into an 4mL EDTA Tube For children, blood taken into a 2mL EDTA tube Storage/transport Send at ambient
Sample requirements For adults 2 x 4mL pre-chilled EDTA tubes on ICE Storage/transport Do not store.
following factors are known to significantly affect the performance of the examination or the interpretation of the results: lipaemia, sample clotted (if EDTA
Sample Requirements 1ml, 2ml or 4ml EDTA sample.
Sample requirements For adults, 4 ml of blood taken into an EDTA tube a Full Blood Count should also be requested.
Sample Requirements 6 mL EDTA tube Required Information Sample and request form must be labelled correctly with 4 points of patient identification
Sample requirements For adults only (>18years of age) , 4 mL of blood taken into an EDTA tube Storage/transport Send at ambient temperature to the laboratory
Please collect bone marrow aspirate samples into EDTA, and mix well to avoid clotting.
<24 hours (EDTA sample) or <1 week (gold-top serum sample)