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Other Specimens
Please choose from one of the categories below.
Other Specimens
- Shipment
- Tissue
- Tissue specimens for free-living amebae
- Isolation of Leishmania organisms
- Sputum
- Aspirates
- Sputum, induced sputum, and bronchoalveolar avage (BAL) for Pneumocystis jirovecii
- Vaginal swabs for diagnosis and susceptibility of Trichomonas
- Cellulose tape or swube tube procedure for demonstration of pinworm eggs
- Urine
- Whole Organisms
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