Saint Luke's Regional Laboratories

1. Submit a swab specimen from the vagina or rectum area collected by the physician.
2. Place the specimen in a culture collection and transport tube.
3. Label the tube with the patient's full name, date of birth, identification number,
date and time of collection, initials of the person collecting the specimen, and the specimen source.
4. Maintain sterility and forward promptly.
5. The specimen source is required on the request form for processing.

87081 - Culture Strep Group B (EAP 30060900)
87077 - Aerobic identification (if appropriate)
87184 - Susceptibility studies, disk method (if appropriate)
87186 - Susceptibility studies, microdilution or agar dilution (if appropriate)

Monday through Sunday

Susceptibility testing will be performed on strep B isolate if penicillin allergy is noted on the request form.