At Quest, Urine culture is drawn in a gray-top urine transport tube or UriSponge™ transport, order code 395.

Quest collection requirements

Urine culture tube and order code at Quest

Primary tube

gray-top urine transport tube or UriSponge™ transport

Order code

395

Minimum volume

Preserved: gray-top transport must be filled to minimum line printed on tube • Completely saturated UriSponge transport • Unpreserved: 0.5 mL urine