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Cold Agglutinins

Methodology

Tube agglutination

Performing Laboratory

Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center

Specimen Requirements

Specimen Type: Serum
Container/Tube: Red top
Specimen Volume: 1 mL
Collection Instructions: Tube must be kept warm and taken immediately to laboratory to be placed in 37°C water bath.

Specimen Transport Temperature

Ambient/Refrigerated OK

Reference Values

Titers above 1:32 are considered elevated. A fourfold or greater rise in titer is considered suggestive of an M. pneumoniae infection.

Day(s) Test Set Up

All

Test Classification and CPT Coding

86157