Saint Luke's Regional Laboratories

For swab specimens: Roche Cobas 4800 media, M4-RT or M6 viral transport media. For urine specimens: polypropylene urine container without preservative.

Swab specimens (female or male) from genital or oral; urine (female or male)

1 swab; 10 - 50 mL of first-catch, random urine

Swab Specimens:
1. Collect specimen using appropriate collection swab (no wooden swabs).
2. Place swab in Roche cobas 4800 media, M4-RT or M6 viral transport media.
3. Label the tube with the patient's full name, date of birth, identification number, date and time of collection, initials of person collecting specimen, and specimen source.
4. Maintain sterility and forward promptly.
5. The specimen source is required on the request form for processing.

Urine:
1. Collect 10 - 50 mL from a first-catch, random urine collection in a polypropylene container without preservative. Urine that has been transferred to a yellow top tube without preservative is also acceptable.
2. Label the container with the patient's full name, date of birth, identification number, date and time of collection, initials of person collecting specimen, and specimen source.
3. Maintain sterility and forward promptly.
4. The specimen source is required on the request form for processing.
 

Room temperature or refrigerated

Room temperature - 24 hours

1. Swabs with wooden shafts are not acceptable.
2. Swab MUST be present in transport media.
3. Urine specimens containing preservative (gray top or tiger top urine tubes) are not acceptable.
4. GenProbe (Aptima) urine transport tubes are not acceptable.

87491 - Chlamydia PCR (EAP 30051001)

Testing is performed daily, Monday through Friday. No testing performed on weekends or SLHS holidays. Test is not offered on a STAT basis.

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)