Specimen:

Serum

Collection Medium:

Minimum:

Adult preferred minimum: 1.0 mL serum
Adult absolute minimum: 0.5 mL serum
Pediatric minimum: 0.3 mL serum

Rejection Criteria:

Severely lipemic or contaminated specimens.

Analytic Time:

5 working days

Reference Range:

  Test Component                    Reference Range
Histoplasma Antibody by ID           None detected
Histoplasma Yeast Antibody by CF        < 1:8
Histoplasma Mycelia Antibody by CF      < 1:8

Test
Limitations:

Negative fungal serology does not rule out the possibility of current 
infection.

Methodology:

Complement Fixation (CF)
Immunodiffusion  (ID)

CPT Code:

86698 Histoplasma (ID), 86698 Histoplasma mycelia (CF), 86698 
Histoplasma yeast (CF)

See also:
Aspergillus Antibody by ID, Serum
Blastomyces Antibody by ID, Serum
Coccidioides Antibodies CSF by CF, ID, ELISA, CSF
Coccidioides Antibodies by CF, ID, ELISA, Serum
Fungal Serology, Serum