Corneal Scrape

Microbiology will provide an eye kit on request for this test. The eye kit consists of three types of agar plates, one glass microscopy slide and a set of instructions. The eye department must request a porter to pick up the eye kit from CSR. Microbiology will perform microscopy, isolation, identification and susceptibility of any organism likely to be pathogenic. Turn around times: microscopy results will be available within 4 hrs, culture results 5-6 days.