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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Medicine and laboratory testing are constantly changing. The Laboratory Formulary Committee regularly sends out emails with new updates and changes. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Beginning 8/16/2023</b>, the UH Microbiology laboratory will perform the following in-house:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-9.0pt">1. <b>Qualitative Cytomegalovirus (CMV) PCR</b> of saliva swabs or urine samples from
<u>patients less than 21 days old</u>. <b>Congenital CMV PCR – LAB9838</b> replaces
<b>CMV Saliva Real-Time PCR (Sendout) – LAB9113</b> <u>and</u> <b>CMV Quant DNA PCR Urine – LAB8952</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-9.0pt">2. <b>Quantitative Hepatitis C virus (HCV) PCR</b> of serum or EDTA plasma specimens for
<u>patients with reactive HCV serology or known infection</u>. <b>HCV Quant PCR - LAB9842</b> will replace
<b>Hepatitis C RNA, quantitative, PCR (aka HCV) - LAB887</b>. Specimens that test positive for HCV antibody will be
<u>automatically reflexed</u> to HCV Quant PCR.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-9.0pt">3. <b>Quantitative Cytomegalovirus (CMV) PCR</b> of EDTA plasma specimens.
<b>CMV Quant PCR, Plasma – LAB9843</b> will replace <b>CMV DNA, quantitative, PCR - LAB913</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-9.0pt">See attached guidances for further details and example reports.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">For prior guidances, please visit
</span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/upstate0.sharepoint.com/sites/LaboratoryFormularyCommitteeLabchanges__;!!GobTDDpD7A!fMqwKEI3JlieL_eF-Vo4vMVj2PNzfXcL0GsxYMLCbL6cXpbRqzmyQKWIxbV1BBgJ8OlmOsFv$"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">https://upstate0.sharepoint.com/sites/LaboratoryFormularyCommitteeLabchanges</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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