Respiratory Tract Infection (RTI) Test Service
$249.00 – $264.00
- Description
- Infections this can help detect
- Symptoms to consider for use
- Medical specialties that treat infection
- Collection Instructions
- Purchase Disclaimers
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If you suffer from chronic or reoccurring lower respiratory tract infections, you need answers about what is causing your infection. Traditional laboratory cultures, which attempt to grow the microbes from your sputum or BAL sample in a lab, often fail to identify the bacteria or fungi that make up your infection. MicroGenDX combines two advanced technologies to test your sample instead. One is called “next-generation sequencing” (NGS), which uses a database of over 50,000 bacteria and fungi to identify all of the microbes in your sample with 99% accuracy over 3-5 days. The other is called quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), which can more quickly identify common microbes causing lower respiratory tract infections in just 24-48 hours. Suggested sample types: Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), Bronchial Wash, Bronchial Aspirate, Bronchial Brush, and tissue.
Infections this can help detect
Symptoms to consider for use
- Fever
- Wheezing
- Difficulty breathing, especially breathing quickly or in an irregular pattern
- Difficulty catching your breath
- Tightness in the chest or chest pain
Medical specialties that treat infection
- Pulmonologists
Collection Instructions
Purchase Disclaimers
- Sample should be shipped out to the lab within 24 hours of collection. If you are unable to ship out the sample within 24 hours, be sure to place in a refrigerator.
- Samples that have not been submitted, cannot be refunded after 90 days.
- We DO NOT offer refunds on shipping fees or lab services.
- New York orders for this product will only run qPCR for gene resistance (excluding Quinolone resistance) and bacterial load; followed by NGS, which compares the DNA to a library of over 57,000 microbial species.
- Samples originating from New York patients, or providers, will NOT receive antibiotic recommendations.
- MicroGenDX cannot ship to Russia, China (except Hong Kong), Ukraine, Hungary, India, or any country in Africa.
- The organisms identified in the lab report may or may not be associated with infection. Please consult your treating physician for further details.
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