Eurofins Biomnis code

CAND

Synonyms

• Candidiasis

Specialty

Infectious

Clinical significance

Serological diagnosis is only relevant to visceral infections. Results can be indeterminate because of a lack of specificity due both to C. albicans being a saprophyte and also to low sensitivity in immunosuppressed patients. Serological analysis should only be undertaken as a complement to conventional culture-based techniques, histological analysis of infected tissue and assays to detect antigen in the blood (which appears early in infection but disappears quickly).

Preanalytics

• 1 mL :
• serum (do not use 10 mL tube)
•   Reftrigerated

• A tube specifically for this analysis : No

Further information

If equivocal or positive, the confirmation test is automatically performed.

Methodology

Indirect enzyme immunology and haemagglutination

Turnaround time

5 days