Polio Stool Sample Collection

Cdc will conduct routine testing and typing of csf respiratory specimens and stool for enterovirus rhinovirus and poliovirus testing of stool specimens to rule out the presence of poliovirus.

Polio stool sample collection.

The system did not depend on the hospital s passive. All afp cases under 15 years of age or with paralytic illness at an age where polio is suspected should be reported immediately and investigated within 48 hours and two stool specimens should be collected 24 48 hours apart and within 14 days of the onset of paralysis. Polio eradication could never rely on routine health information systems alone. This age criterion captured children targeted for vaccination in the second round of the mass campaign.

By testing stool samples collected from children suffering acute flaccid paralysis the clearest symptom of the virus as well as samples taken from sewage water we are able to find the poliovirus wherever it is hiding. Additional testing protocols are being developed to look for afm biomarkers and studies to identify possible mechanisms for afm are underway. Refer to this table when you collect store and ship specimens. To store until ready to return your sample.

Staff and stool samples taken for virological analysis. Place the orange cap specimen container stool pathogen pcr panel giardia antigen stool culture in the refrigerator keep the green cap specimen container ova and parasites cryptosporidium at room temperature keep the screw cap container without liquid clostridium difficile in the refrigerator. Before sending specimens to cdc please contact your state or local health department then email soberste cdc gov and cburns cdc gov for additional information and to provide shipment details.