Inpatient and Outpatient Orderable

Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Culture with Reflex to Typing

Synonyms

CULTURE - VIRAL, HERPES
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS CULTURE
HERPES VIRAL CULTURE RLX TO TYPING
LAB946

Cerner Name

Clinical Info

HSV culture is useful in verifying HSV is present within the vesicles.

Specimen Sources

Adenoids Amniotic Sac Ankle, Left Ankle, Right Aortic Valve Arm, Left Arm, Right Axilla, Left Axilla, Right BAL Back, Lower Back, Upper Bladder Bone Marrow Brain Breast, Left Breast, Right Buttock, Left Buttock, Right Cervix Cheek, Left Cheek, Right Chest Chin Colon Duodenum Ear, Left Ear, Right Elbow, Left Elbow, Right Expectorated Sputum Eye, Left Eye, Right Finger, Left Finger, Right Foot, Left Foot, Right Forehead Frontal sinus Groin Hand, Left Hand, Right Heart Hip, Left Hip, Right Induced Sputum Jaw, Left Jaw, Right Kidney, Left Kidney, Right Knee, Left Knee, Right Labia Larynx Leg, Left Leg, Right Lip, Lower Lip, Upper Liver Lumbar Puncture Lung, Left Lower Lobe Lung, Left Upper Lobe Lung, Right Lower Lobe Lung, Right Middle Lobe Lung, Right Upper Lobe Lymph Node Mitral Valve Nares Navel Neck Nose Ovarian Cyst Ovary Pancreas Pelvis Penis Per Stoma Pericardium Peritoneal Placenta Placenta Pleura, Left Pleura, Right Procurement Prostate Prosthetic valve Rectum Scalp Scrotum Shoulder, Left Shoulder, Right Spleen Stool Testicle Thyroid Toe, Left Toe, Right Tongue Tonsil Tricuspid valve Urethra Urine, Clean Catch Uterus Vagina Vertebra Vitreous Vulva Wrist, Left Wrist, Right Show more...

Specimen Types

Body Fluid Respiratory Swab Tissue

Container

Viral Trn

Collection Instructions

Container/Tube: VTM media (VTM/UTM must indicate on vial for Viral, Chlamydia, Herpes, Mycoplasma collection)
Specimen: Submit only 1 of the following specimens:

Acceptable Specimens:
Nasal/nasopharyngeal swab, endocervical swab, eye swab or lesion (vesicle) aspirate swab, urethral swab, vaginal swab, rectal mucosa swab (without feces) or throat swab collected in 3 mL VTM( 1 mL min)
Alternative Specimen(s)
3 mL (1 mL fluid or 1 g tissue minimum) Bronchial lavage/wash or Nasopharyngeal lavage/wash • Fresh (unfixed) tissue collected in 3 mL VTM (1mL min)

Transport Temperature: Refrigerated
Stability: VTM/UTM/M4 transport medium
                       Refrigerated: 4 Days
                       Frozen: 30 Days
                 Sterile Leak-Proof Container:
                        Refrigerated only: 72 hours

Collection Instructions To maintain optimum viability, place swab into VCM (equal volumes of fluid/tissue and VCM) or equivalent and transport the specimen to the laboratory as soon as possible. Best recovery is obtained when the specimens are refrigerated at 2-8°C or kept on wet ice following collection and while in transit. If there will be a long delay before processing, specimens in VCM or equivalent should be frozen at -70°C or colder and transported on dry ice. Storage or transport at -20°C is not acceptable. Raw (unpreserved) samples should only be refrigerated and not frozen.

Note: PCR is the preferred test for CSF (preferred specimen: 1 mL CSF submitted in a sterile, leak-proof container without transport media).
Reject Criteria
CSF • Sputum; Raw (unpreserved) stool • Dry swabs • Molecular transport systems • Bacterial transport systems • Tissue or biopsies in formalin or other fixatives • Calcium alginate swabs • Wooden shaft swabs • Non gel-based bacterial transports

Specimen Volume

Submit only 1 of the following specimens:

Transport Instructions

Refrigerated

Specimen Stability

VTM/UTM/M4 transport medium
                       Refrigerated: 4 Days
                       Frozen: 30 Days
                 Sterile Leak-Proof Container:
                        Refrigerated only: 72 hours

Collection Inst

Methodology

Culture- Centrifuge Enhanced Culture • Histochemical Stain
Monoclonal Fluorescent Antibody Typing

Days Performed

Culture- Monday through Sunday
Typing - Tuesday and Friday

Performing Laboratory

Quest Diagnostics' Nichols Institute, Inc. - Chantilly

CPT

Culture- 87255
Typing- 87140

LOINC code: 41461-5

PDM

6400115

Only Orderable at Locations:

Orderable Everywhere

Results

Component Name	Base Name	Common Name	External Name
CULTURE - VIRAL, HERPES	VVCH	CULTURE VIRAL, HERPES	Viral Culture Herpes
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2 AG	HSV2AG	HSV 2 AG	Herpes simplex virus 2 Ag
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1 AG	HSV1AG	HSV 1 AG	Herpes simplex virus 1 Ag
HERPES SIMPLEX TYPING	HERPSIMTYP	HERPES SIMPLEX TYPING	Herpes Simplex Typing

Result Interpretation

No virus isolated

If Herpes Simplex Virus Culture, Rapid Method is "Isolated", the Type 1, Herpes simplex virus and Type 2 Herpes simplex virus will be performed at an additional charge

Results available : 4 Days
5- 7 Days Typing

Forms

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