North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 41 - EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH
Subchapter A - COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL
Section .0200 - CONTROL MEASURES FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Section 41A .0209 - LABORATORY TESTING

Universal Citation: 10A NC Admin Code 41A .0209

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024

All laboratories shall do the following:

(1) When Neisseria meningitidis is isolated from a normally sterile site, test the organism for specific serogroup or send the isolate to the State Laboratory of Public Health for serogrouping;

(2) When a stool culture is requested on a specimen from a person with bloody diarrhea, culture the stool for shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli or send the specimen to the State Laboratory of Public Health;

(3) When Haemophilus influenzae is isolated, test the organism for specific serogroup or send the isolate to the State Laboratory of Public Health for serogrouping; and

(4) When Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex is isolated, test the organism for specific restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) or send the isolate, or a subculture of the isolate, to the State Laboratory of Public Health for genotyping.

Authority G.S. 130A-139;
Eff. October 1, 1994;
Temporary Amendment Eff. February 18, 2002;
Amended Eff. April 1, 2004; April 1, 2003;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. January 9, 2018.

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