Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Article 1 - DISEASES
Section 28-1-18 - Reporting and submission requirements for laboratories

Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 28-1-18

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 52, December 26, 2024

(a) Each person who is in charge of a laboratory as specified in K.S.A. 65-118, and amendments thereto, shall provide the reports required by K.A.R. 28-1-2 to the department using an automated, secure electronic laboratory-reporting system or other means acceptable to the secretary. A person's use of electronic or automated reporting shall not exempt that person from reporting a suspected case within four hours as required by K.A.R. 28-1-2.

(b) Each person who is in charge of a laboratory as specified in K.S.A. 65-118, and amendments thereto, shall submit the following to the department's office of laboratory services in the following order of preference, if the test results indicate the presence of any microorganism specified in subsection (c):

(1) Isolates of positive cultures;

(2) original clinical specimen from a patient;

(3) nucleic acid; or

(4) any other materials determined by the secretary.

(c) Each person who is in charge of a laboratory as specified in K.S.A. 65-118, and amendments thereto, shall submit the specimens specified in subsection (b) if the test results indicate the presence of any of the following microorganisms:

(1) Any carbapenem-resistant organism;

(2) Candida auris;

(3) Haemophilus influenzae, if identified in a patient with invasive disease;

(4) Listeria species;

(5) Mycobacterium tuberculosis;

(6) Neisseria meningitidis;

(7) Salmonella species;

(8) shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC);

(9) Shigella species;

(10) Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive; and

(11) Vibrio species.

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