If you only require serum saving, please request a short-term store (three months).
State relevant symptoms, duration and any foreign travel. Some serology tests are added or removed depending on the patient's clinical details.
All rejected tests will be reported with an appropriate comment and the Microbiology medical staff are happy to discuss all cases.
Serology tests
Processed in-house by OUH laboratory
Some samples may need to be referred to other laboratories.
Antenatal HIV antibody / antigen screen
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
On EPR Antenatal Booking CareSet
Antenatal HBV Antigen Screen
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
On EPR Antenatal Booking CareSet
Antenatal Syphilis Antibody Screen
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
On EPR Antenatal Booking CareSet
Anti-streptolysin O Titre
- Specimen type: serum
- Assay frequency: daily
Borrelia Burgdorferi (Lyme) IgG
- Specimen type: serum
- Assay frequency: daily
Cytomegalovirus IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Cytomegalovirus IgM
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
EBV EBNA IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Epstein Barr Virus VCA IgM (reflex test)
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Epstein Barr Virus VCA IgG (reflex test)
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Helicobacter Pylori IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
See Helicobacter pylori section
Hepatitis A Virus IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hepatitis A virus IgM
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hepatitis B Surface Antibody
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hepatitis B Core Total Antibody
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Confirmation (reflex test)
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hep B Core IgM (reflex test)
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hep Be Antibody (reflex test)
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hep Be Antigen (reflex test)
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hepatitis C Virus Ab Screen
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Hepatitis E IgG and IgM
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
HIV Combined Antibody / Antigen
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
HSV IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
HTLV 1 and 2 Antibody
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Measles IgG
- Specimen type: serum
- Assay frequency: daily
Mumps IgG
- Specimen type: serum
- Assay frequency: daily
Parvovirus B19 IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Parvovirus B19 IgM
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Rubella Virus IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Rubella Virus IgM
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Syphilis Antibody
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
RPR (reflex test and known syphilis cases)
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
SARS CoV2 (COVID) Anti-N IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
SARS CoV2 (COVID) Anti-S IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Toxoplasma IgG
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Toxoplasma IgM
- Specimen type: serum / plasma
- Assay frequency: daily
Varicella Zoster (VZV) IgG
- Specimen type: serum
- Assay frequency: daily
