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Principle:Double indicator system

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Parameter: pH

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Correlations of pH

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✓ Nitrite
✓ Leukocytes
✓ Microscopic

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1.Increase ph 7
2. Decrease ph 7

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1.AMORPHOUS phosphate
2.AMORPHOUS URATES

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Causes Acid urine

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✓ Emphysema
✓ Diabetes mellitus
✓ Starvation
✓ Dehydration
✓ Diarrhea
✓ Presence of acid-producing
bacteria (Escherichia coli)
✓ High-protein diet
✓ Cranberry juice
✓ Medications (methenamine
mandelate [Mandelamine],
fosfomycin tromethamine
[Monurol])

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IT CAUSES
✓ Hyperventilation
✓ Vomiting
✓ Renal tubular acidosis
✓ Presence of urease producing
bacteria
✓ Vegetarian diet
✓ Old specimen

“HPORVV”

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Alkaline urine

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PROTEIN principle

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Principle: protein error of indicator

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PROTEIN reagent
Multistix:
Chemstrip:

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Multistix: Tetrabromophenol blue

✓ Chemstrip: 3’,3’’,5’,5’’-tetrachlorophenol 3,4,5,6-
tetrabromosulfophthalein

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Sensitivity of protein

Multistix: ________________________________
✓ Chemstrip: ____________________

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Multistix: 15-30 g/dL albumin
✓ Chemstrip: 6mg/dL albumin more sensitive

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• Highly buffered interference alkaline urine
• Pigmented specimens, phenazopyridine
• Quaternary ammonium compounds
(detergents)
• Antiseptics, chlorhexidine
• Loss of buffer from prolonged exposure of the
strip to the specimen reagent
• High specific gravity

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False positive result in protein

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False neg in protein

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• Proteins other than albumin
• Microalbuminuria

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11
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Correlation in protein

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BLOOD
nitrite
LEUKOCYTES
microscopic

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Glucose principle

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Double sequential enzymatic reaction

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13
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Multistix and chemstrip of glucose

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Multistix: potassium iodide (green to
brown)
▪ Chemstrip: tetramethylbenzidine (yellow
to green

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14
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Glucose + O2 air______ _> Gluconic acid + H202 hydorgen peroxide. What is the first catalyst in glucose parameter

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Glucose oxidase

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Protein negative result

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Yellow

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16
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Protein positive result?

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Blue green

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17
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Protein concentration increase result to?

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GREEN BLUE

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H2O2 + chromogen________ -> oxidized colored chromogen +H2O
What is the 2nd catalyst in glucose

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Peroxidase

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19
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Is used if the px is allergic to iodine

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Chlorhexidine aseptics

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20
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Regents in glucose
Multistix
Chemstrip

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Multistix: Glucose oxidase, Peroxidase,
Potassium iodide
✓ Chemstrip: Glucose oxidase, Peroxidase,
Tetramethylbenzidine

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21
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Sensitivity of glycose
Multistix:
Chemstrip: _______

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Multistix: 75-125mg/dl
✓ Chemstrip: 40 mg

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22
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Contamination by oxidizing agents and detergents

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False positive in glucose

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False negative in glucose is due to?

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🙁High levels of ascorbic acid
• High levels of ketones
• High specific gravity
• Low temperatures
• Improperly preserved specimens

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Correlations of glucose

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Ketones
Protein

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25
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Reagent strip reaction of glucose

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Copper reduction test

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26
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The only non reducing sugar

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Sucrose

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27
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method by impregnating the testing area with a mixture of glucose oxidase, peroxidase, chromogen, and buffer to produce a double sequential enzyme reaction

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Glucose oxidase

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28
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• Relies on the ability of glucose and other substances to reduce copper sulfate to cuprous oxide in the presence of alkali and heat

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Copper reduction test [clinitest]

29
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Glucose blue to green reaction is called?

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“PASS-THROUGH” phenomenon

B-g-red-blue

30
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Will oxidize the reducing substance due to heat and alkali

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CuSO4 (Cupric Sulfide)

31
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Present in urine

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Reducing substance

32
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Cu2O (Cuprous Oxide) +
Oxidized Substance →

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Color (Blue/Green →
Orange/Red)

33
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Principle of ketones

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Niropusside reaction

34
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Produce a purple color

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Sodium nitroprusside nitroferricyanide

35
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Use ACETEST TABLETS

36
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Acetoacetate (& acetone) + Sodium Nitroprusside + Glycine in alkaline will produce a color of? In ketones

37
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Reagents in ketones

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Sodium nitroprusside
Glycine (Chemstrip)

38
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Ketones sensitivity
Multistix
Chemstrip

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Multistix: 5-10 acetoacetic acid
Chemstrip: 9mg/dl acetoacetic acid;70 mg/dl acetone

39
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✓ False Positive in ketones

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✓ False Positive
• Phthalein dyes
• Highly pigmented red urine
• Levodopa
• Medications containing free sulfhydryl groups

40
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False neg in ketones

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Improperly preserved specimens

41
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Ketones correlations

42
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Principle of blood

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Pseudoperoxidase activity of hemoglobin

43
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Reagent of blood
Mutistix
Chemstrip

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Multistix: Diisopropylbenzene dihydroperoxide
and 3,3’,5,5’- tetramethylbenzidine
Chemstrip: dimethyldihydroperoxyhexane and
tetramethylbenzidine

44
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Chromogen of blood

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tetramethylbenzidine

45
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Blood reagent
Multistix
Chemstrip

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Multistix: Diisopropylbenzene dihydroperoxide
and 3,3’,5,5’- tetramethylbenzidine

✓ Chemstrip: dimethyldihydroperoxyhexane and
tetramethylbenzidi

46
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False-positive result in blood

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• Strong oxidizing agents
• Bacterial peroxidases
• Menstrual contamination

47
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False neg in blood

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High specific gravity/crenated cells
• Formalin
• Captopril
• High concentrations of nitrite
• Ascorbic acid greater than 25 mg/dL
• Unmixed specimens

48
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Corellations in blood

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Protein
Microscopic

49
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Principle of BILIRUBIN

50
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uses ICTOTEST TABLETS

51
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Reagents of bilirubin
multistiz
Chemstrip

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✓ Multistix: 2,4-dichloroaniline diazonium salt
✓ Chemstrip: 2,6-dichlorobenzenediazonium salt

51
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Reagents of bilirubin
multistiz
Chemstrip

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✓ Multistix: 2,4-dichloroaniline diazonium salt
✓ Chemstrip: 2,6-dichlorobenzenediazonium salt

52
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FALSE positive result in bilirubin is caused by?

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  • Highly pigmented urines,
  • phenazopyridine
  • Indican (intestinal disorders)
  • Metabolites of Lodine
53
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False-negative in bilirubin

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  • Specimen exposure to light
  • Ascorbic acid greater than 25 mg/dL
    *High concentrations of nitrite
54
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Correlation of bilirubin

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✓ Urobilinogen

55
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UROBILINOGEN principle

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Erlich/ diazo reaction

56
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p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde will produce what color?

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light to dark pink

57
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4-methoxybenzenediazoniumtetrafluoroborate will produce what color in urobilinogen

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white to pink

58
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UROBILINOGEN negative result will produce what color?

59
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Reagent in urobilinogen
Multistix:
Chemstrip:

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Multistix: p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde
✓ Chemstrip: 4-methoxybenzenediazonium-
✓ tetrafluoroborate

60
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False positive in urobilinogen
(MULTISTIX)

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Porphobilinogen
* Indican
* p-aminosalicylic acid
* Sulfonamides
* Methyldopa
* Procaine
* Chlorpromazine
* Highly pigmented urine

61
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False negative result in urobilinogen
(MULTISTIX)

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Old specimens
* Preservation in formalin

62
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Chemstrip:
✓ False-positive in urobilinogen

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  • Highly pigmented urine
63
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Chemstrip:
✓ False-positive in urobilinogen

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  • Highly pigmented urine
64
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✓ False-negative chemstrip in urobilinogen

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  • Old specimens
  • Preservation in formalin
  • High concentrations of nitrite
65
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nitrite principle

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greiss reaction

66
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First reaction in nitrite

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p-arsanilic acid (or sulfanilamide) NO2->Diazonium Salt (Nitrite

67
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Diazonium Salt + tetrahydrobenzoquinolin->Pink Azodye

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second reaaction in nitrite

68
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Reagents in nitrite

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Multistix: p-arsanilic acid, Tetrahydrobenzo(h)-
quinolin-3-ol
Chemstrip: Sulfanilamide,
hydroxytetrahydrobenzoquinoline

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