Specimen Requirements

Specimen must arrive within 30 minutes of collection.

10 mL from a freshly voided urine collection in a plastic urine container. (Specimen received >30 minutes is not acceptable.) No preservative. Forward promptly at ambient temperature only.

If above requirements cannot be met:

1.  Centrifuge 10 mL of freshly voided urine at 1800 rpm for 5 minutes.

2.  Decant the supernatant and use 1 drop of the sediment to make two slides.  If the sample appears to contain many WBC's make two direct smears from un-centrifuged urine as well.  Let all slides dry and transport to lab labeled with patient name and one other identifier.