Blood sample (plasma)
Pink top EDTA (6ml)
Samples from patients known to have blood transmissible viral infections should be clearly labelled “High Risk” or “Danger of Infection”.
Use for determination of active ongoing infection, monitoring of longer term disease progression and response to antiviral therapies.
Local test
8 days
http://www.bhiva.org/HIV-testing-guidelines.aspx
Specimen Labelling Procedure