Calculate the Sigma value for sodium given that the total allowable error is 12%, the bias is 0.9%, and the CV is 2%.

Which of the following would not be a typical methodology for a clinical chemistry test?

How should a laboratory verify the reference range it uses for a particular test?

According to the NCEP Guidelines for Acceptable Measurement Error, the coefficient of variation for HDL cholesterol should be on what range?

Which method for the assay of uric acid is simple and nonspecific?

This condition shows a beta-gamma bridging effect as the serum protein electrophoretic pattern.

For each degree of fever in the patient, pO2 will fall _________& and pCO2 will rise _________%.

Colligative properties include all the following, EXCEPT:

Beer’s law states that the concentration of a substance is (1) ____ proportional to the amount of light absorbed or (2) ____ proportional to the logarithm of the transmitted light:

Reflectance spectrometry uses which of the following?

The process by which fluorescence of an analyte is reduced due to the excited molecule losing some of its energy by interacting with other substances in solution is known as:

In chemical reaction, the amount of product formed is measured at specific intervals during a specific period and then related to the concentration of analyte in the unknown. This type of measurement is known as:

Indicator of nutrition, binds thyroid hormones and retinol (vitamin A) binding protein:

Variants demonstrate a wide variety of cellular interactions, including roles in cell adhesion, tissue differentiation, growth, and wound healing:

Biochemical marker of bone resorption that can be detected in serum and urine:

When plasma creatinine concentration is elevated, GFR is ____, indicating renal damage:

When measuring ammonia blood levels, which of the following might cause a false increase in this analyte?

Catalyzes the joining of two substrate molecules, coupled with breaking of the pyrophosphate bond in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or a similar compound:

In the Bowers and McComb method for determining alkaline phosphatase activity, the substrate used is:

Abnormal lipoprotein present in patients with biliary cirrhosis or cholestasis and in patients with mutation in lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT):

Friedewald Formula (FF) is not valid for triglycerides over ____ mg/dL

Electrolytes essential for myocardial rhythm and contractility:

Electrolytes essential for myocardial rhythm and contractility:

Sodium produces which color in a flame?

What is the infective stage of Leishmania spp. to humans?

The third Taenia spp.:

Which of the following media identifies species of Aspergillus?

This presumptive test for Candida uses serum.

Which of the following produces macroconidia that are large, multicellular and club-shaped with smooth walls?

Which of the following parasite larva can be isolated in sputum?

85% N2, 10% H2, 5% CO2 is the environmental condition that best suits which type of organism?

Which genera of the Enterobacteriaceae are known to cause diarrhea and are considered enteric pathogens?

One of the enterotoxins produced by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in traveler’s diarrhea is similar to the toxin produced by:

Shigella species characteristically are:

A culture of decubitus ulcer grew a gram-negative facultative bacillus. On TSI it produced an acid slant, acid butt, and gas. Test reactions in other media were as follows: Citrate negative, Indole positive, urease negative, ONPG negative, Voges-Proskauer negative. The organism was identified as:

The causative agent of melioidosis is:

An isolate of E. coli recovered from the stool of a patient with severe bloody diarrhea should be tested for which sugar before sending it to a reference laboratory for serotyping?

Which species of Shigella is most commonly associated with diarrheal disease in the United States?

The species of Vibrio closely associated with rapidly progressing wound infections seen in patients with underlying liver disease is:

Severe disseminated intravascular coagulation often complicates cases of septicemia caused by:

1. What is a Schistosomule?

Eye infections with Acanthamoeba spp. have most commonly been traced to:

1. Autofluorescence requires no stain and is recommended for the identification of:

The microfilariae of Brugia malayi are recognized by the

All of the following except one are best diagnosed by identification in a blood smear. Which one is not?

In the D. latum life cycle, the infective stage for humans is

It causes alveolar hydatid disease, which is a fatal form of echinococcosis

CSF shunt primary plating media:

Yellow colonies on XLD agar: