Specimen Requirements

Lower Respiratory Specimens collected below the endotrachial

tube, bronchial washings, lavage and brush, thoracentesis, pleural fluid,

pleural cath tips, lingual, BAL, RUL, LLL, LUL, LML, RLL, RML, Chest tube, chest

tube drainage, chest fluid, chest fluid seroma, lung (non-sputum), not

associated with a surgical wound.