Unit 1
What is another name for treating blood and other body fluids as potentially infectious?
Standard precautions
What is the term that describes the reciprocal of the highest dilution of the patients serum?
Antibody titer
What pipettes characteristics is known for not needing great accuracy
Graduated pipette
What percentage of cases of hepatitis are classified as primary hepatitis?
95%
Which environmental factor is responsible for approximately one third of cancers?
Smoking
What are proteins?
Excellent antigens
What is an advantage of automatic pipettes?
Fast, repetitive measurements, delivering equal volumes of solutions
What is the term of a highly purified substances of a known composition?
Standard
What is TORCH known as?
Spectrum of congenital effects
Which tumor marker is associated with prostate cancer?
PSA
Activation by antigen-antibody complexes represents?
Classic Pathway
What is the term for a specimen with a known value that is similar in composition of the specimen?
Control
Most commonly identified M protein in serum IFE
IgG
One of the most widely available assays for antibody testing in Lyme Disease
EIA for Total IgG & IgM
Graft versus host disease is most likely to occur in:
Stem cell transplant recipients
A child who contracts a dangerous disease from an older sibling could develop a form of immunity against the disease of?
Natural active
What does the term photon mean?
Basic unit of radiation
What does chemiluminescence refer to?
Light emitted & Chemical reaction
A key immunologic substance that is known to be against bacteria is:
Lysozyme
What is the main virus responsible for AIDS?
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
3 complement activation pathways converge at the point of cleavage of complement component what:
C3
1st phase of immunofixation electrophoresis, serum is separated according to:
Electrophoretic mobility
What is the principle of flow cytometry?
Reaction of dyes with the cellular component of interest
After viral infection, when does the incubation period of infectious mono begin?
10-50 days
Which antibody is highly specific for SLE?
Anti-dsDNA