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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Medicine and laboratory testing are constantly changing. In an attempt to keep us all on the same page, the Laboratory Formulary Committee will be regularly sending out emails
with recent updates and guidances. Below are the short versions of relevant changes and attached are more in-depth guidances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Non-variola Orthopoxvirus (Monkeypox, MPV) order:</b> <strong>
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">To facilitate the ordering process and viewing of results, a new order for non-variola Orthopoxvirus DNA,
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Monkeypox (Orthopoxvirus) PCR (Send Out)</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">,
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">LAB9791 </span>
</strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">will be available effective
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">08/08/2022</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">. Specimen collection kits and instructions are available at both campuses (Downtown:
Microbiology, 464-4459; Community: Laboratory, 492-5531). See attached guidance for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>BK virus RNA quantitation orders:</b> Beginning <b>08/11/2022</b>, the UH Microbiology Laboratory will perform BK virus (BKV) RNA quantitation for plasma and urine specimens in-house.
<u>Epic order names will change</u> from <b>BK, virus, plasma</b> and <b>BK, virus, urine</b> to
<b>BK Virus Quant PCR, Plasma</b> and <b>BK Virus Quant PCR, Urine</b> but the order codes (<b>LAB1374</b> and
<b>LAB1375</b>) remain the same. See attached guidance for more information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">For prior guidances, please visit
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/upstate0.sharepoint.com/sites/LaboratoryFormularyCommitteeLabchanges__;!!GobTDDpD7A!fMqwKEI3JlieL_eF-Vo4vMVj2PNzfXcL0GsxYMLCbL6cXpbRqzmyQKWIxbV1BBgJ8OlmOsFv$">
https://upstate0.sharepoint.com/sites/LaboratoryFormularyCommitteeLabchanges</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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