Campylobacter species Antigen, EIA
Test Code: 16302
CPT Code(s): 87449
Clinical Significance: Campylobacter is one of the most common bacterial causes of diarrheal illness in the United States. Virtually all cases occur as isolated, sporadic events, not as part of large outbreaks. Active surveillance indicates that only about 15 cases out of each 100,000 persons are actually diagnosed each year. Many more cases go undiagnosed or unreported.
Campylobacteriosis is estimated to affect over one million people each year occurring more frequently in the summer months. The organism is isolated from infants and young adults in higher numbers than from other age groups and occurs more frequently in males than females. Although it doesn’t commonly cause death, Campylobacter can be attributed to approximately 100 deaths each year.
Methodology: Immunoassay (IA)
Alternative Name(s): Campy Antigen Detection, Campy ELISA, Campy EIA
Supply: #F02 - Para-Pak® C&S with Cary-Blair Transport Medium
Preferred Specimen(s): 10 grams stool submitted in Cary-Blair stool culture transport medium
Minimum volume: 5 grams
Transport container: Cary-Blair stool culture transport medium
Transport temperature: Room temperature
- Room temperature: 4 days
- Refrigerated: 4 days
- Frozen: unacceptable
- Unpreserved at any temperature
- Frozen specimens
- Stool specimens preserved in medium other than those listed
- Stool specimens that have been previously concentrated
- Specimens in diapers
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