Hantavirus antibody (IgG, IgM)

Alphabetical Test listing

Hantavirus antibody (IgG, IgM)-994

  
Hantavirus antibody (IgG, IgM)
  
994
  
LAB994
  
MSO
  
Hantavirus Renal and Pulmonary
  
Hantavirus Ab (IgG)
Hantavirus Ab (IgM)
  
Serum
  
  
0.5 mL
  
0.1 mL
  

Immediately following collection, mix sample by gently inverting 5 times

  
  1. Allow sample to clot for a minimum of 30 minutes
  2. Spin within two (2) hours of sample collection
  

Gold serum separator (SST) tube

  
  
  1. Allow sample to clot
  2. Spin within two (2) hours of sample collection
  3. Transfer serum to a Transfer vial/tube with cap - 12mL (LabCorp), labelled as serum
  
  

Ambient (preferred) - 7 days

Refrigerated - 14 days

Frozen - 30 days

  
  • Gross hemolysis
  • Lipemia
  • Icteric
  
Quest Diagnostics Infectious Disease (37547) via LabCorp (835027): R-NX
  
Mo, We, Sa
  
4 - 6 days
  

Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)

  

Negative

  
Two major groups of hantaviruses are recognized based on clinical presentation. The first group includes Sin Nombre Virus (SNV), which causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a severe and sometimes fatal form of acute respiratory distress. A second group of hantaviruses (including Seoul, Hantaan, Dobrava, and Puumala) causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, a condition not typically seen in the United States. Sera are initially screened for IgG and IgM antibodies recognizing the nucleocapsid protein common to all hantaviruses. All Hanta IgM positive samples from US residents will be sent to a Public Health Laboratory for SNV-specific IgM. Samples that are Hanta IgG positive but IgM negative are not subjected to SNV-specific IgM testing, since the lack of IgM rules out acute SNV infection. A positive Hanta IgM result but a negative SNV-specific IgM antibody result may indicate either reactivity to a hantavirus other than SNV or false positive reactivity. A small number of SNV IgM postive (but Hanta IgG negative) samples represent false positive reactivity associated with acute cytomegalovirus or Epstein Barr virus infection.
  
86790 x 2
  
Result SOLOINC
  
05/29/2019
  
12/28/2023
  
12/28/2023