Tide Laboratories offers Advanced Diagnostic Testing for Physicians, Clinicians, and Health Care Facilities. Our goal is to provide clear, accurate diagnostic reports, empowering clinicians to make the most informed treatment decisions. We even offer interpretive services for complex, molecular genetics test results, where the informed analysis of field experts can be of invaluable assistance.
- Respiratory Panel
- STI Panel
- UTI ID Panel
- Women’s Health Panel
- Wound Panel
- NEW Pharyngitis Panel
- NEW Antibiotic Resistance Panel
Comprehensive panel detecting viral, bacterial, and fungal pathogens causing respiratory illness by molecular technique.
Symptoms to Consider:
- Acute bronchitis
- Common cold
- Acute pharyngitis
- Acute tonsillitis
- Cough and fever
- Wheezing
- Pneumonia
- Viral infection
- Other nasal and sinus diseases
Now you can provide patients the quickest and most accurate diagnosis possible
- Expedited Patient Results
- Multiple pathogens available
- Unmatched accuracy of PCR
- Simple Collection
- Direct access to experienced scientific staff
- Personal customer service experience

Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing by Molecular Technique.
Now you can provide patients the quickest and most accurate diagnosis possible.
- Expedited Patient Results
- Identifies pathogens which are difficult to culture
- Yields greater than 95% analytical sensitivity and specificity
- Multiple collection techniques
- Urine C&S Tube
- E-Swab
- Cervical Brush w/ Pap Smear media
- Direct access to experienced scientific staff
- Personal customer service experience

Comprehensive panel detecting, by Molecular Technique, urinary pathogens.
Testing with high sensitivity and specificity compared to the traditional urine culture technique. We identify pathogens difficult to grow in culture and use the largest pathogen menu available.
Fiscally Responsible Urinary Infection Testing Option.
- This panel will reflex from Urinalysis to UTI ID
- Panel based on the same criteria as the traditional UA, culture if indicated
- Patients avoid higher cost of UTI ID Panel if unnecessary
- Ensures only medically necessary testing is conducted
Now you can provide patients the quickest and most accurate diagnosis possible.
- Expedited Patient results
- Drug resistance marker results available prior to antibiotic sensitivity results
- Traditional antibiotic sensitivity results accompany UTI results
- Individual pathogen test ordering available

We provide OB/GYN clincians with the latest in molecular diagnostic testing, allowing for fast, accurate and comprehenvise screenings across a broad spectrum of pathogens and genetically influenced conditions.
Bacterial Vaginosis Panels:
- Estimate the quantity of normal vaginal flora and compare with pathogenic species
- Detect 10 pathogenic species causing bacterial vaginosis
- Provide the results in text and graphical format
- Provide suggestive treatment of BV based on the results
- Monitor the efficacy of antimicrobial therapy
- Can detect Aerobic vaginitis, Candidiasis
Now you can provide patients the quickest and most accurate diagnosis possible.
- Expedited Patient Results
- Can be performed along with PAP Smear
- Identifies pathogens which are difficult to culture
- Yields greater than 95% analytical sensitivity and specificity
- Simplicity of single sample collection
- Direct access to experienced scientific staff
- Personal customer service experience

Quickly manage skin and soft tissue infections, avoiding delays in diagnosis and preventing infections from progressing.
Comprehensive panel detecting, by Molecular Technique, the most common pathogens infecting wounds and soft skin.
Symptoms to Consider
- Increased swelling, tenderness, or pain
- Cloudy drainage, yellow or green pus
- Expanding redness or red streaking
- Fever
Now you can provide patients the quickest and most accurate diagnosis possible.
- Expedited Patient results
- Extensive wound pathogens panel
- PLUS Resistance Markers to avoid ineffective antibiotics
- Unmatched accuracy of PCR
- Simple collection
- Direct access to experienced scientific staff
- Personal customer service experience

Please see below our newly developed Pharyngitis Panel available for use now! Call 256-445-5000 to get started!
Assay | Pathogen |
PHN-01 | Adenovirus |
PHN-02 | Enterovirus |
PHN-03 | Coronavirus OC43 |
PHN-04 | Coronavirus 229E |
PHN-05 | Coronavirus NL63 |
PHN-06 | Coronavirus HKU1 |
PHN-07 | Influenza A |
PHN-08 | Influenza B |
PHN-09 | PIV-1 |
PHN-10 | PIV-2 |
PHN-11 | PIV-3 |
PHN-12 | PIV-4 |
PHN-13 | Respiratory Syncytial Virus (A & B) |
PHN-14 | Rhinovirus |
PHN-15 | Chlamydophila pneumoniae |
PHN-16 | Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
PHN-17 | Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS) |
PHN-18 | Streptococcus dysgalactiae (GCS,GGS) |
PHN-19 | Streptococcus pneumoniae |
PHN-20 | Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) |
PHN-21 | *Endogenous Control |
Please see below our newly developed and expanded ABx Panel available for use now! Call 256-445-5000 to get started!
Assay | Gene |
ABR-01 | Temoniera-β-lactamase (TEM) |
ABR-02 | Sulfhydryl Variable-β-lactamase (SHV) |
ABR-03 | Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) |
ABR-04 | CefoTaXime-M-β-lactamase (CTXM 1) |
ABR-05 | CefoTaXime-M-β-lactamase (CTXM 2) |
ABR-06 | CefoTaXime-M-β-lactamase (CTXM 8) |
ABR-07 | CefoTaXime-M-β-lactamase (CTXM 9) |
ABR-08 | CefoTaXime-M-β-lactamase (CTXM 25) |
ABR-09 | New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) |
ABR-10 | Verona integron-encoded metallo-β-lactamase (VIM) |
ABR-11 | Verona integron-encoded metallo-β-lactamase (VIM 7) |
ABR-12 | Verona integron-encoded metallo-β-lactamase (VIM 13) |
ABR-13 | Cephamycinase (CMY 1) |
ABR-14 | Cephamycinase (CMY 2) |
ABR-15 | Cefoxitin-Hydrolyzing Class C-β-lactamase (FOX) |
ABR-16 | Oxacillinase Group (OXA 1) |
ABR-17 | Oxacillinase Group (OXA 2) |
ABR-18 | Oxacillinase Group (OXA 48) |
ABR-19 | Methicillin Resistence (mecA) |
ABR-20 | Sulfonamide-Resistant isolate (Sul 1) |
ABR-21 | Sulfonamide-Resistant isolate (Sul 2) |
ABR-22 | Sulfonamide-Resistant isolate (Sul 3) |
ABR-23 | Erythromycin Resistance Gene (ermB) |
ABR-24 | Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance Determinant (qnrA 1) |
ABR-25 | Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance Determinant (qnrB 1) |
ABR-26 | Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance Determinant (qnrB 5) |
ABR-27 | Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance Determinant (qnrS) |
ABR-28 | Vancomycin Resistance (Van A) |
ABR-29 | Vancomycin Resistance (Van B) |
ABR-30 | Vancomycin Resistance (VanC 1) |
ABR-31 | Vancomycin Resistance (VanC 2-4) |
ABR-32 | Endogenous Control |