Culture Testing FAQs

Culturing takes 14 days. After the culture is completed, we perform PCR testing, which takes another few days. So a full culture enhanced PCR test will take approximately three weeks.

Lyme disease, Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever, Bartonella, Babesia, Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, and Anaplasma.

In culturing, a clinical sample from the body (e.g. blood) is incubated in media. During this incubation period, micro-organisms in the sample grow and multiply. The sample is then tested by PCR to identify the pathogens.