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Medical Laboratory Technician, MLT (ASCP) Exam Review (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions and Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct (Verified Answers)
Question:
What conditions can anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) be found in?
Answer:
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Scleroderma, and Sjogren’s
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In what percentage of patients with SLE will ANAs test positive?
Answer:
95%
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What do patients with SLE create that react to different nuclear antigens?
Answer:
Autoantibodies
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What are some examples of nuclear antigens that ANAs react to?
Answer:
Nucleic acids, histones, chromatin, and nuclear antiribonuclear proteins
Question:
What type of cells would be increased in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of a patient suspected of having multiple sclerosis?
Answer:
Lymphocytes
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What is a typical association for increased lymphocytes in the CSF?
Answer:
Viral infections 2 / 4
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What are some noninfectious causes for increased lymphocytes in the CSF, such as in multiple sclerosis?
Answer:
There are also noninfectious causes for increased lymphocytes, such as multiple sclerosis
Question:
What are some infectious causes for increased lymphocytes in the CSF?
Answer:
Infectious causes for increased lymphocytes include: viral
meningoencephalitis, aseptic meningitis syndrome, fungal meningitis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis
Question:
In blood banking, the Direct Antiglobulin Test (DAT) is used in the investigation of which of the following clinical conditions
Answer:
- Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDFN)
- Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction (HTR)
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Question:
Moraxella lacunata
Answer:
- Gram Negative Coccobacilli that can cause *conjunctivitis, pink-eye*
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Rhinocladiella
Answer:
- Elliptical conidia are borne directly and laterally in compact rows from
sides of branching conidiophores
Question:
A laboratory test that can detect the specific decrease in the platelet surface membrane receptor glycoprotein 1b and thus leads to a diagnosis of Bernard Soulier Syndrome (BSS) is
Answer:
- flow cytometry
- specific for the GP1b complex can be performed and aid in the diagnosis of
Bernard Soulier Syndrome (BSS)
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