1st order laboratory parameters – obligatory laboratory tests.
- Culture detection by swab from throat (tracheal secretion, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL; method of specimen collection used during bronchoscopy (lung endoscopy)), nasopharyngeal swab) or specimen from: Urethral swab (urethral swab), cervical swab (cervical swab), ejaculate, prostate expressate, urine.
- Direct detection via DNA hybridization or PCR (polymerase chain reaction).
- Nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT): very high sensitivity and usually more sensitive than classical microbiological methods (culture, microscopy) – if Mycoplasma genitalium is suspected [method of choice]; alternatively culture.
