Specimen Retention Time

Routine Samples are normally held for 2 weeks to allow for supplemental testing, as may be requested by the submitter. After that 2 week time period, samples will be discarded, according to TVMDL protocol. Exceptions include, but are not limited to legal cases and State/Federal testing requirements. Please notify the laboratory if a submission is legal or may be held for legal purposes. Long term storage of specimens cannot be provided by TVMDL and those specimens must be transferred to the submitter. Poultry samples at the Gonzales and Center Labs will be kept for a minimum of 5 working days.

Please check the list of tests offered by TVMDL carefully to insure we provide the test you have requested. With your written instructions we may be able to ship your specimen to another laboratory offering tests which we do not provide. Although we will only ship specimens to laboratories we believe to be using good laboratory practice, we cannot provide assurance of the accuracy for another laboratory's results or validation data for that laboratory. Billing for the charges from the referred laboratory and shipping / handling charges will apply.

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  • Lepto hardjo serology
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