Welcome to our practice test for Medical Laboratory Certification Exams like ASCP and AMT for MLT, CLS and MLS. Test includes General Laboratory, Hematology, Clinical Chemistry, Urinalysis & Body Fluids, Blood Banking & Immunohematology, Serology & Immunology and Microbiology. You have 60 minutes to answer 100 test questions. Good luck!
#1. Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract Agar is a special media for growing which organism
#2. Any solid, semisolid or liquid waste generated in diagnosis, treatment or immunization of humans or animals in research, production of testing of biologics
#3. Delayed type hypersensitivity reactions like dermatitis, tuberculosis and leprosy are considered which type
#4. Each of the following samples may be used in hematology except
#5. The presence of sufficient quantities of ascorbic acid in urine has the potential of causing false positive reactions with which of the following?
#6. The best method to detect infections due to rubella, epstein-barr, and human immunodefiency viruses is
#7. What can you do to help prevent a fire in the laboratory?
#8. Post transfusion anaphylactic reactions occur most often in patients with
#9. Delayed onset transfusion reaction usually due to anamnestic response to clinically significant antibodies such as Rh, Kell, Kidd and Duffy
#10. Infection from these cestodes is diagnosed by seeing hydatid cysts in routine x-rays or exploratory surgeries
#11. Main organ involved in protein synthesis and its breakdown to urea.
#12. Which ketone does the dipstick reagent for urine ketone bodies detect?
#13. Calibration for speed of centrifuge done every
#14. A mechanism of cell-mediated immune defense whereby an effector cell of the immune system actively lyses a target cell, whose membrane-surface antigens have been bound by specific antibodies.
#15. Which immunoglobulin is the predominant antibody in body secretion
#16. The time from when pathogen first enters the body and begins to multiply, until symptoms first appear
#17. Which of the following is the physiological calcium channel blocker?
#18. If there is no time to determine a patient’s ABO and Rh type because he is profusely bleeding, what ABO/Rh type should be transfused
#19. Patient serum is mixed with a suspension of guinea pig antigen. When the sample is then mixed with horse red blood cells, agglutination occurs. This is suggestive of an infection caused by
#20. Which of the following organisms causes “rat bite” fever and has 2-3 spirals and bipolar polytrichous tufts of flagella?
#21. This parasite is diagnosed by demonstrating characteristic football shaped eggs with mucoid polar plugs
#22. Which of the following is not a clinical symptom of primary hypothyroidism?
#23. Which of the following statements on Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is false?
#24. Acid phosphatase can be found in the following except
#25. Most common pH used in protein electrophoresis
#26. Which hepatitis B markers should be performed on blood products?
#27. Which of the following substances, sometimes used as a tumor marker, is increased two- or threefold in a normal pregnancy?
#28. Which of the following lectins will discern group A1 cells from A2 cells
#29. Streptococcus agalactiae belongs to which group of Streptococcus
#30. An assay’s ability to detect small concentration of a substance is called
#31. Hemophilia B is associated with a deficiency of which clotting factor?
#32. A person can not make an alloantibody as a result of
#33. These parasites are the causative agents of malaria with bouts of fever and chills in man.
#34. Listed below are the results for a patient who had a positive ANA on initial testing: Anti-SM negative, Anti-SSA & SSB positive, Anti-Scl-70 negative, Anti-RANA negative. Which disease is most closely associated with these results:
#35. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technique for the detection of HBsAg
#36. Pseudo-Pelger-Huet anomaly is associated with
#37. The following test is the most accurate indication of the presence of inflammation
#38. Term used to describe a range in which 95% of the population is expected to fall
#39. Test used to differentiate Staphylococcus aureus from Staphylococcus epidermidis
#40. The following statements are true about Thalassemia except
#41. A patient is administered an oral glucose tolerance test with the following results. Fasting glucose = 128 mg/dl, 2 hour post load glucose = 238 mg/dl.
#42. A 29 year old AB negative male is hemorrhaging badly. He needs 6 units of blood. Which of the following would be the most preferable?
#43. Which type of anemia is associated with defects in RBC cell membranes
#44. A combination of features usually associated with SLE, systemic sclerosis, and polymyositis.
#45. Observation of this WBC inclusion is helpful in the diagnosis of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
#46. An A positive blood sample has a negative antibody screen. 6 units of A positive red cells were crossmatched and 1 unit was incompatible in the AHG phase. Which should be done first?
#47. In bacterial infection, elevated levels of this hormone is a marker of high risk of sepsis
#48. Hemophilia C is associated with a deficiency of which clotting factor?
#49. Cell surface glycoproteins that contributes to self/non-self recognition, immune responses, and coordination of cellular and humoral responses
#50. A patient received about 15 ml of compatible blood and developed severe shock, but no fever. If the patient needs another transfusion, which RBC component should be given?
#51. Folin Wu Method is a test for which analyte?
#52. Which lipoprotein moves fastest when subjected to electrophoresis?
#53. Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody is most often associated with this condition
#54. Which of the following is not an example of a precipitation type of antigen-antibody reaction?
#55. A metabolic disorder in which your organs accumulate excess iron, leading to organ damage
#56. The following are reducing sugars except
#57. What is the decolorizer used in Acid Fast Staining?
#58. The following are non-pathogenic protozoans except
#59. Which statement is false about glucagon?
#60. This type of hypersensitivity reaction induces cell death when antibody attaches to cell bearing corresponding antigen
#61. Patient suffering from Waldenstrӧm macroglobulinemia demonstrate excessively increased concentrations of which of the following
#62. Instrumentation based on the principle that cells passing through electric current creates electrical pulses proportional to cell size
#63. HLA antigen typing is important in screening for
#64. Which of the following RBC inclusions is associated with lead poisoning?
#65. Term used to describe the agreement of results with the true value for substance in a given specimen
#66. The following may cause oliguria except
#67. What is the principle behind the detection of urine nitrites?
#68. Which of the following is considered the first line of defense in infection control?
#69. Bone marrow transplant donors and their recipients must be matched for which antigen system(s)
#70. Which statement is true about the gray top tube?
#71. In the interpretation of aggutination tests for febrile diseases, which of the following is of the greatest diagnostic importance?
#72. The following are hormones produced in the adrenal medulla except
#73. In order to be present in the urine, bilirubin must be in the form of
#74. In normal semen, which percentage of the sperm cells seen should be motile?
#75. “Grape-like” clusters is a characteristic of which genus of bacteria
#76. Which enzyme has isoenzymes found in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and the brain.
#77. When would you need to use an N-95 respirator?
#78. An enriched, selective, and differential media used for the isolation and presumptive identification of Clostridium difficile
#79. Which statement does not describe the following antigens k, Kp(b) and Js(b)?
#80. How long must the sample be stored following a transfusion of the patient?
#81. Vaginal epithelial cells that appear fuzzy without sharp edges under a microscope due to the abundance of bacteria
#82. Which of the following can cause a Trend?
#83. Leukoreduced red cells would most likely be indicated for patients with a history of
#84. Which of the following is cleaved as a result of activation of the classical complement pathway?
#85. Autoimmune condition when the body produces autoantibodies against myelin sheath of nerves or myelin basic protein
#86. Transparent, clear casts that are often hard to see in urine; should be examined under subdued lighting
#87. Substances that are antigenic only when coupled to a protein carrier are
#88. A 10% red cell suspension in saline is used in a compatibility test. Which of the following would most likely occur?
#89. Immunity to Hepatitis B due to vaccination shows an elevation of this serologic marker
#90. Range of usual values for constituent of clinical interest in a healthy population
#91. Which type of anemia is associated with antibody destruction?
#92. What is the first part of the cell to degrade during apoptosis?
#93. Which hormone is deficient in patients with Diabetes insipidus?
#94. Which of the following disorders would be associated with a right shift in the red cell histogram?
#95. Which of the following is associated with chronic renal disease or renal failure
#96. Potassium ion exchanges for sodium ions happens in which part of the nephron?
#97. The following statements are true except
#98. Appearance of these crystals in synovial fluid is an indication of gout
#99. The following are tests routinely performed on donor blood except
#100. The result of an anti-nuclear antibody test was a titer of 1:320 with a peripheral pattern. Which of the following sets of results best correlate with these results?
Results
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