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May 24, 2018
Stool Culture
$55.00
Test Details
Synonyms
- Culture, Stool, Comprehensive
- Enteric Pathogens Culture, Routine
- Feces Culture, Routine
- Routine Culture, Stool
Test Includes
Culture; isolation and identification (at an additional charge) of Salmonella, Shigella, and Campylobacter, and detection of enterohemorrhagic E coli (EHEC) Shiga toxin by EIA. If culture results warrant, susceptibility testing (additional charges/CPT code[s] may apply) may be performed. CPT coding for microbiology and virology procedures often cannot be determined before the culture is performed. Requests with only a written order and no test number indicated will be processed according to Default Testing for Routine Microbiology.
Use
Detect bacterial pathogenic organisms in the stool; diagnose typhoid fever, enteric fever, bacillary dysentery, Salmonella infection.
Indications for stool culture include:1
• Bloody diarrhea
• Fever
• Tenesmus
• Severe or persistent symptoms
• Recent travel to a third world country
• Known exposure to a bacterial agent
• Presence of fecal leukocytes
