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Test Code SHPAG Helicobacter Pylori antigen, stool

Additional Codes

Hospital Ordering Code
LAB397 H. pylori antigen, stool

Specimen Requirements

Container/Tube Type: 

Sterile Container
ETM (Cary Blair Transport vial)

 

Collection Information: 

Stool, Unpreserved

 

Unacceptable Conditions: 

Stool on swabs.

Performing Laboratory

Pathology Laboratory, UnityPoint Health, Des Moines

CPT

87338

Methodology

Enzyme Immunoassay

Specimen Transport Temperature

Refrigerated Stability: 

96 hours

 

Frozen Stability: 

14 days

 

Ambient Stability: 

96 hours

Day(s) Test Set Up

Performed: 

Mon-Fri

 

Analytical Time: 

Same day

Alias

H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori), H. Pylori Antigen, Stool, Helicobacter pylori