701-835 Flashcards
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- Precipitation test for CSF total protein: TCA and SSA
- Positive for pellicle clot formation: Tubercular meningitis
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- Oligoclonal bonding in CSF bonding but not in serum → Multiple sclerosis, encephalitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and neurosyphilis
- Semen fructose test is not tested within 2 hours: Specimen must be FROZEN
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- Reagent used in Florence test which detects choline: Potassium iodide, Iodine
- Used to assess sperm cell velocity and trajectory: Computer-assisted semen analysis (CASA)
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- Normal volume of synovial fluid: less than 3.5 ml
- Normal synovial fluid glucose: <10mg/dl lower than blood glucose
- Cells seen in synovial fluid which resembles polished rice macroscopically: Rice bodies
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- Type of effusion caused by congestive heart failure: Transudate
- Sputum: Not a normal body fluid, tracheobronchial secretions
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- Important diagnostic test for Pneumocystic carinii in immunocompromised patients: Bronchoalveolar lavage
- Tests for Neural Tube defects: AFP, acetylcholinesterase
- Microviscosity test for fetal lung maturity: measured by FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION
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- Green amniotic fluid: MECONIUM
- Dark red-brown color of amniotic fluid: FETAL DEATH
- Normal Gastric fluid appearance: PALE GRAY WITH MUCUS
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- Noninvasive test to determine gastric acidity: DIAGNEX TUBELESS TEST
- Collagen-like material with concentric striations seen in ovarian and thyroid carcinomas: PSAMMOMA BODIES
- Melena: BLACK AND TARRY STOOL
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- Laminar flow: Biosafety Cabinet class II
- HEPA filter: Removes org > 0.3 um (bacteria, fungi)
- Blood culture collection: 2-3 samples (Max. 3 BAILEY’S) at least 1 hour apart in 24 hours
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- Grade A milk: <75,000 bacteria per mL when raw, and <15,000 bacteria once pasteurized
- Enteric agar: XLD, EMB, HEA
- Rickettsial stains: Gimenez, Macchiavello
- Concentration of Hydrogen Peroxide as disinfectant: 3% H2O2
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- MIO medium: Motility Indole Ornithine
- Quaternary ammonium compounds are inactivated by: Organic substances
- Fite-Faraco stain: Hematoxylin as counterstain instead of methylene, AFB
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- Sodium polyanethol sulfonate: Anti-phagocytic, anti-complement
- Bromthymol blue as indicator: HEA, TCBS, Simmon’s citrate agar
- Nasopharyngeal swabs: H. influenzae, N. meningitidis, B. pertussis
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- Inhibits gram-positive bacteria: Crystal violet and sodium desoxycholate (bile salt)
- Inhibits gram-negative bacteria: Sodium azide, phenylethyl alcohol
- Detects gram-negative endotoxin: Limulus lysate test
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- Protein A: Staphylococcus aureus, coagglutination
- Slime layer production: Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Protein M: Streptococcus pyogenes
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- Colonies with ground glass appearance: Legionella (Mahon)
- Increased resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to aminoglycosides: Increased calcium and magnesium
- Smallest free-living organism: Mycoplasma
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- Benchmarking: Comparison with peers
- Histoplasma cross-reacts with: Blastomyces, Aspergillus and Coccidioides
- Aman medium stain: Lactophenol cotton blue
- Czapek’s medium: Isolation of Aspergillus
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- African histoplasmosis: Histoplasma duboisii
- Test for Candida albicans that uses serum: Germ tube test
- Chlamydospore production of Candida albicans: Cornmeal agar
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- Candidiasis infection affecting the oral cavity: Thrush
- General isolation media for fungi: Saboraud’s dextrose agar
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- Major biologic hazard to laboratory personnel: Coccidioides immitis
- Sensitive fungal (fluorescent) dye that binds to cell wall: Calcofluor white
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- Chromoblastomycosis: Sclerotic bodies
- Rose gardener’s disease: Sporotrichosis
- Eosinophilic material due to antigen-antibody reaction in cases of sporotrichosis: Asteroid body
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- Largest DNA virus: Poxvirus
- Smallest DNA virus: Parvovirus
- Largest RNA virus: Paramyxovirus
- Smallest RNA virus: Enterovirus (Picornaviridae)
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- Cross reactive antigen in all human adenoviruses: Hexon
- Gastroenteritis in children during winter months: Rotavirus
- Nonbacterial gastroenteritis in adults: Norovirus
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- Toxic to HSV: Calcium alginate
- Isolation medium for Cytomegalovirus: Human fibroblast cells
- True amoeba: GENUS Entamoeba
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- Trophozoite with ingested red blood cell: Entamoeba histolytica
- Trophozoite with ingested WBC: Entamoeba gingivalis
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- Gay bowel syndrome: Giardiasis
- Cercaria minus a tail: Schistosomule
- Infective stage of Diphyllobothrium latum: Plerocercoid larva
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- Resembles Diphyllobothrium latum adult: Spirometra
- Passing of proglottids of Taenia: Irritated by ALCOHOL
- Taenia spp. eggs: Hexacanth embryo with thick radial striations
- Cercarial dermatitis: Schistosomes
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- Length of needle in routine phlebotomy: 1.0 – 1.5 inches
- Angle of draw in venipuncture: 15 to 30 ° angle (15 degree angle)
- The distance of drop of blood from the edge of the slide: 1 cm
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- Blood production outside the bone marrow: EXTRAmedullary hematopoiesis
- Hematopoietic stem cell marker: CD 34
- Common acute lymphocytic leukemia antigen: CD 10
- Test for Hemoglobin S which uses black line: Dithionate solubility test
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- Starry sky pattern under low power imparted by numerous macrophages with apoptotic debris: Burkitt’s lymphoma
- Granules (tertiary granules) present in Neutrophil: Alkaline phosphatase
- Euglobulin clot lysis time: Screening test for fibrinolysis
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- Screening test for PNH: Sugar water screening test
- Derived from RBC Histogram: MCV, RDW
- Derived from Platelet Histogram: MPV, PDW