Specimen Submission Instructions and Reagent Ordering Forms
We’d like to collaborate with you! You can support public health by depositing your isolates in CDC’s Arboviral Reference Collection (ARC). The ARC offers long-term curation, maintenance, and distribution of valuable isolates. Contact the ARC staff about depositing your isolates for long-term curation, maintenance, and distribution.
Email the ARC: reagents2@cdc.gov
If you need reagents, visit our Arboviral Reagent Ordering System.
Instructions for submitting specimens to CDC diagnostic laboratories
You can submit specimens to CDC diagnostic laboratories by completing a specimen submission form. For details, refer to one of the following pages:
- Arboviral Diseases Specimen Submission Instructions
- Bacterial Diseases Specimen Submission Instructions
- Dengue Specimen Submission Instructions
- Rickettsial Zoonoses Specimen Submission Instructions
Note: Diagnostic specimens are now regulated by the DOT & ICAO/IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations. Anyone offering packages for transport containing diagnostic sample must be trained according to these regulations. For more information, please refer to CDC’s Scientific Resources Program.
Reagent ordering
The Division of Vector-Borne Diseases provides reagents that are not commercially available to state, local, and territorial public health laboratories for diagnostic testing of arboviruses and rickettsial zoonoses. Laboratories may request:
- Arboviral reagents by logging into the Arboviral Reagent Ordering System.
- Serological reagents for rickettsial disease confirmation by contacting the Division of Scientific Resources at referencereagents@cdc.gov.