Specimen requirements Plasma from whole blood collected in an EDTA vacutainer transferred to a 2ml screw-cap transport tube. The specimen must be shipped refrigerated or frozen with cold packs same-day or overnight to the IDPH laboratory in Chicago. Specimen is without a requisition. Requisition is without the specimen number. Requisition is without the collection time, date and technologist's initials.
Requisition is without the separation time, date and technologist's initials.
Requisition is without the plasma freezing time, date and technologist's initials. Materials required Mycobacteriology kit. Criteria for rejection 1. Specimen without submission form 2. Specimens older than 72 hrs.