
WRAIR's Diagnostics and Countermeasures Branch oversees all HIV testing for the Army and serves as the Tri-Service Reference Laboratory
Specimen Testing
If you are a DoD site wanting to submit specimens to the HIV Diagnostics & Reference Laboratory (HDRL) for testing, please contact us at wrairhdrl@hivresearch.org to access test request forms, individual test specifications, and testing algorithms (PDF format).
Specimen Submission Guidelines (2022)
Test Request Forms and Test Specs For Serology
HDRL Serology Clinical Test Request Form (2022)
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Test Request Form (2022)
HIV Verification Algorithm Test Request Form (Sites other than CONUS - 2022)
HIV Verification Algorithm Test Request Form (CONUS sites only - 2022)
- HIV-1 Western Blot
- HIV Combo Ag/Ab EIA
- Geenius HIV 1:2 Supplemental
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg) Confirmatory
Test Request Forms and Test Specs For Molecular
Molecular Aptima/Qualitative Test Request Form (2022)
Molecular Viral Load (Quantitative) Drug Resistance Test Request Form (2022)
Molecular Send Out Test Request Form (2022)
- HIV-1 Viral Load (method: Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan)
- HIV-1 RNA Qualitative Assay (APTIMA)
- HIV-1 Integrase Genotype
- HIV-1 Resistance Genotype
- HIV-1 Phenotype
- HIV-1 Trofile
- HIV-1/HIV-2 DNA PCR
- HCV RNA Qualitative Assay (APTIMA)
- HCV Viral Load (method: Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan)
Vaccine Induced Sero-Reactivity Test Request Form (2022)
Testing Algorithms
- HDRL Clinical HIV Testing Algorithm (June 2021)
- Acute HIV Infection Algorithm (June 2021)
- Contractor/HDRL US Army HIV Algorithm (June 2021)
POC Forms
- HDRL Point of Contact Form - Results Reporting (2021)
- HDRL Point of Contact Form - Notification & Follow-Up (2021)
Packing & Shipping
- Packaging and Shipment of Specimens
- Verification Kit Instructions (CONUS sites only)
- Verification Kit Packing Instructions
Certificates
Historical Changes
- Summary of Changes (February 2022)
- Summary of Changes (August 2021)
- Summary Of Changes (April 2019)
- HDRL SSG Update Memo_Signed (April 2019)
- HDRL SSG Update Memo_JUN17 (June 2017)
- Memo re: Modification of HDRL Testing, Effective December 1, 2016(December 2016)
- Summary of Changes (July 2015)
- Specimen Submission Guidelines (July 2015)
- Memo re: Modifications to HDRL's HIV 1/2 Rapid Testing Interpretations (March 3, 2015)
- Memo re: Availability of ViroSeq HIV-1 Integrase Genotype Assay (July 7, 2015)
- Memo re: Changes to Submission Guideline (March 23, 2015)