Serum in red top or serum separator tube, lavender top.
Specimen
2.0 mL serum in red top tube or serum separator tube and 1.0 mL EDTA whole blood in lavender top tube.
Test Description
SuperChem (SA010) with Complete Blood Count (CBC), Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) antigen detection, Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) antibody detection, and thyroid screening panel (Total T4 and Free T4 by Equilibrium Dialysis (FT4ED)).
Interferences: marked hemolysis and lipemia. Lipemia can falsely decrease T4 results. Marked hemolysis or lipemia may result in false positive results on the FeLV Antigen ELISA.