Stool Culture with Shiga toxin

Test ID: CXSTS

CPT code: 87046, 87045
LOINC:
Specimen Type: Stool
Frequency: Setup: daily; Prelim 24hrs/ Final 3 days
Instructions: Stool in clean cup, deliver immediately or 1-2gm in orange-top transport (Cary-Blair). Up to 3 days refrigerated. One specimen per day.
Text: Useful as screen for bacterial pathogenic organisms in the stool;
diagnose typhoid fever, enteric fever, bacillary dysentery, Salmonella
infection. Routine culture checks for Salmonella , Shigella and
Campylobacter and toxin producing E.coli
Methodology: Special media Immunochromatographic.

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