Laboratory Directory of Services
Disease, Suspected Agent or Requested Test
Alphabetical Directory
Click on the letters below to browse the test menu
Botulism Clostridium botulinum
Brucella species (Brucellosis)
Burkholderia mallei (Glanders)
Burkholderia pseudomallei (Melidosis)
C & S (Stool Culture)
Candida auris colonization screening
Candida species (other than C. auris)
Carbapenem_producing_organism_colonization_screening
Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobactor baumanii colonization screening
Carbapenemase Resistant Enterobacterales
Chancroid Haemophilus ducreyi
Chlamydia trachomatis - Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing (NAAT)
Clostridioides difficile (Clostridium difficile/C. diff)
Clostridium botulinum - Culture Isolates/Wound Cultures
Clostridium botulinum - Stool/Serum/Food
Clostridium perfringens (gas gangrene)
Colistin-resistant Gram Negative Bacteria
COVID-19 - Orders must be submitted through the Lab Web Portal (see additional guidance below)
- COVID-19 Sequencing Guidance
- TN Lab Web Portal Quick Guide - COVID-19
- TN Lab Web Portal Presentation
Cryptosporidium —CRYPTONET
Cryptosporidium, water
Giardia, water—Contact Environmental Microbiology
Glanders - Burkholderia mallei
Influenza virus, Novel or Pandemic Influenza A, H5 or H7 (human samples)
Inorganic chemistry
Malaria slide (Plasmodium species)
Meliodosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)
Mycobacterium, cultures for identification (extra-pulmonary only)
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Gonorrhea), culture
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Gonorrhea), NAAT
Neisseria gonorrhoeae Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Newborn screening— Tennessee Newborn Screening Program Information Toolkit
Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
Quantiferon Gold - Tuberculosis
Rabbit fever— Francisella tularensis
Radiation surveillance
Radiochemistry
Rapid plasma reagin (RPR)—Syphilis
Sputum for Mycobacteria
St. Louis Encephalitis Virus serology
Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, culture
Staphylococcus aureus, VRSA/VISA
Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease
Total coliform
TP-PA (Treponema pallidum Particle Agglutination)—Syphilis Serology
Tuberculosis (TB)—Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tularemia—Francisella tularensis
Undulant fever—Brucella species
Water bacteriology
Water chemistry
West Nile Virus Encephalitis Serology -Human
West Nile Virus-Birds and Mosquitos
Please see the Newborn Screening Laboratory webpage.
Other Resources
- Specimen Submission - General Guidance
- Resource Personnel Phone Listing
- Rule Out/Refer Bench Cards - Biothreat Agent Bench Cards for the Sentinel Laboratory