Corneal Scrape

Description: 
Microbiology will provide an eye kit on request for this test. The eye kit consists of three types of agar plates, one glass microscopy slide and a set of instructions. The eye department must request a porter to pick up the eye kit from CSR. Microbiology will perform microscopy, isolation, identification and susceptibility of any organism likely to be pathogenic. Turn around times: microscopy results will be available within 4 hrs, culture results 5-6 days.
Clinical details: 
keratitis
Department: 
Infection Sciences Department
Location: 
St Thomas' Hospital
Sample type and Volume required: 
Corneal Scape.
Call in advance: 
Please call Microbiology a minimum of 1 hour in advance on ext 83111 or Bleep out of hours (17.00-9.00) on bleep number 1802 to order the eye kit. The kit will need to be collected from CSR by the requestor.
Turnaround time: 
Microscopy results will be available within 4 hrs, culture results 5-6 days. Significant Gram stain and culture results are telephoned to the ward or clinical team by Microbiology Clinical staff.
Special sample instructions: 

Microbiology will provide an eye kit on request for this test. The eye kit consists of three types of agar plates, one glass microscopy slide and a set of instructions. The eye department must request a porter to pick up the eye kit from CSR

Criteria for acceptance / rejections of sample
Storage and transport: 
Place labelled inoculated plates and slide into a sealed specimen bag and arrange for a porter to transport directly to CSR.
Contacts:
Infection Sciences Department at St Thomas' Hospital
020 7188 8008
St Thomas' Hospital
North Wing - 5th Floor
Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7EH
Core opening hours: Monday-Friday 0900-1730


For clinical advice or interpretation of results, please contact the laboratory in the first instance.
Laboratory: 
Microbiology Laboratory at St Thomas'

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Last updated: 27/11/2017