Stool Analysis

Additional Information

Gastrointestinal complaints are among the most common in medical care. This comprehensive profile helps pinpoint the causes of gastrointestinal symptoms and chronic systemic conditions, and measures key markers of digestion, absorption and inflammation. Using growth-based culture, the standard of practice in clinical microbiology, as well as sensitive biochemical assays and microscopy, this thorough stool test evaluates the status of beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms including aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, yeast and parasites

Bacteriology Culture

The Bacteriology Culture profile can identify the presence of beneficial flora, imbalanced flora including Clostridiumspecies, and dysbiotic flora, as well as detect infectious pathogens. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing is also performed for appropriate bacterial and species at no additional charge.

Parasites

While parasitic infection may be an underlying etiological factor in several chronic disease processes, doctors often do not consider the potential for parasitic involvement because signs and symptoms of parasitic infection often resemble those of other diseases. However, it has been shown that parasite testing is a reasonable approach to the detection of causative agents for chronic gastrointestinal disorders.

Yeast Culture

Cultivated growth of the Yeast organism. Identification of abnormal levels of specific yeast species in the stool is an important diagnostic step in therapeutic planning for the patient with chronic gastrointestinal and extra-gastrointestinal symptoms.

These tests are useful for: