Spectrum
This specimen type is required for Karius Spectrum testing.
What is plasma?
This is the blood draw volume required for a Karius Spectrum plasma sample.
What is 5 mL?
Karius is headquartered in this California city, where its CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited lab is located.
What is Redwood City?
This type of tube is used to collect and preserve BAL samples for Karius Focus | BAL testing.
What is a Streck Cell Preservative (CP) tube?
This is the typical turnaround time from sample receipt for Karius Spectrum results
What is 18 (or 24) hours?
Besides plasma, what other specimen type does Karius accept?
What is bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid?
Karius was founded in this year.
What is 2014?
This is the volume of BAL fluid required for testing.
What is 1 mL?
Karius Spectrum testing enables detection of this approximate number of pathogens from a single sample.
What is 1000?
T/F: Karius accepts frozen plasma samples
What is true?
Karius surpassed this milestone number of patient samples tested in 2025.
What is 100,000+?
BAL fluid must be transferred into the Streck CP tube within this number of hours after collection.
What is 12 hours?
Karius Spectrum plasma samples are stable for this amount of time at ambient temperature.
What is 96 hours?
What is the Karius mobile app, the desktop/online portal, and the EMR (after lab uploads the faxed report)?
This category of disease is the second leading cause of death globally.
What is infectious disease?
Once transferred into the Streck CP tube, BAL samples are stable at ambient temperature for this length of time.
What is 7 days?
This collection tube is used as an alternative method for Karius Spectrum sample collection.
What is a K2-EDTA (Lavender Top) tube?
In addition to bacteria, DNA viruses, and fungi, microbial cfDNA testing can also detect this type of organism.
What are parasites?
The Karius test does not detect this category of pathogens.
What are RNA viruses?
Karius Focus | BAL testing enables detection of this approximate number of pathogens from a single sample.
What is 500?