Detection of BK Virus by PCR in urine and EDTA blood samples from renal transplant and bone marrow transplant patients is diagnostic of ureteric stenosis and haemorrhagic cystitis respectively.
Tube
EDTA tubeUrine in white universal.
ID
3638.
Availability
Run once a week.
Turn Around
8 days.
Send to
Microbiology Department, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, St James’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF.
Collection Con
If delays occur refrigerate at 2-8 degrees C.
IP Routine TAT
8 days.
GP Routine TAT
8 days.