Microbiology
This organism is the most common cause of heart valve infections that occur 2-3 months following a surgery.
What is Staphylococcus epidermis?
This abnormal red blood cell shape is present in patients suffering from anemia due to excess intravascular hemolysis.
What is a schistocyte?
The region of serum protein electrophoresis where most immunoglobulins migrate.
What is the gamma region?
This waste product is the end product for protein metabolism in humans.
What is urea?
A very bloody stool is received by the laboratory. The following day, a pathogenic strain of E. coli is isolated. Name a sugar that should be used for further identification of this isolate.
What is sorbitol?
To determine hemoglobin concentration, the concentration of this stable compound is measured at 540 nm.
What is cyanmethemoglobin?
TGF-beta, IL-10, IL-13, and IL-35
What are anti-inflammatory cytokines?
The electrolyte that is the major intracellular cation.
What is potassium?
An unvaccinated 2-year-old presents with meningitis. The Gram stain demonstrates Gram negative coccobacilli. This organism is the most likely cause of this patient’s infection.
What is Haemophilus influenzae?
Iron deficiency anemia and thalassemia fall into this morphological classification based on size and hemoglobin content.
What is microcytic, hypochromic?
This protein inhibits complement by dissociating C1r and C1s from C1q. Deficiency can result in a disease called Hereditary angioedema.
What is C1 inhibitor?
Protein and glucose concentration in cerebral spinal fluid be will be affected this way in a patient who presented with bacterial meningitis
What is decreased glucose and increased protein?
Provide the genus and species name of the organism that can be cultured using Skirrow media.
What is Helicobacter pylori?
This inclusion will most likely be seen on the peripheral blood smear of a patient with an MCV of 107 fL, hypersegmented neutrophils, and markedly decreased intrinsic factor.
What are Howell-Jolly bodies?
Also known as T cell growth factor, this cytokine drives growth and differentiation of both T and B cells as well as enhances the lytic activity of NK cells.
What is Interleukin-2 (IL-2)?
A patient presents with a decreased GFR, elevated BUN and Creatinine concentrations, and the appearance of red blood cell casts in the microscopic urinalysis. This is the patient's diagnosis.
What is acute glomerulonephritis?
A clean catch urine culture grows 67 colonies of a lactose fermenter with the following characteristics: TSI A/A, oxidase negative, motility positive, indole negative, VP positive, Lysine decarboxylase negative, and ornithine decarboxylase positive, and citrate positive. This is what the microbiologist should report.
What is 67,000 CFU/mL Enterobacter cloacae?
This RBC index will not be affected by a falsely high hematocrit.
What is the MCH?
This method involves haptens attached to carrier particles that compete with patient antigens for a limited number of antibody binding sites. Lack of agglutination is a positive test, indicating the presence of antigen in the patient serum.
What is agglutination inhibition?
A patient suffering from hysteria is likely to be in this metabolic state.
What is respiratory alkalosis?