ASCP RECALLS EXAM SCRIPT
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Clenched fist cellulitis associated with what organism - ✔✔Eikenella corrodens
✔✔CEA tumor marker - ✔✔colorectal cancer
✔✔Intestinal amebiasis symptoms - ✔✔Abdominal cramps
Fever
Diarrhea
Bloody stool
✔✔Type of anemia where inability to incorporate iron into protoporphyrin ring -
✔✔Sideroblastic anemia
✔✔Immunoassay for hCG uses which subunit of hCG - ✔✔Beta
✔✔Parasite typically comes from cat feces - ✔✔Toxoplasma gondii
✔✔This condition made up of small clots made of platelets and large forms of VWF -
✔✔TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura)
✔✔Normal heme contains - ✔✔Four heme and four globin chains
✔✔Detection of MRSA - ✔✔Zone of <10mm with an oxacillin disk on MH agar
Molecular tests for mecA gene
✔✔Drug of choice for Clostridium difficile and MRSA - ✔✔Vancomycin (glycopeptide,
inhibit cell wall synthesis)
✔✔Drugs of choice for pseudomonas aeruginosa and other aerobes - ✔✔Ciprofloxacin,
Norfloxacin (quinolines, inhibit nucleic acid synthesis)
✔✔Drug of choice for UTI, enteric infections - ✔✔Sulfamethoxazole (Sulfonomides,
analogue of PABA)
✔✔Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases - ✔✔Enzymes that give bacteria immunity to
both penicillin and cephalosporin antibiotics
✔✔Tiny GN coccobacilli associated with wild boar - ✔✔Brucella spp.
✔✔This condition is associated with oligoclonal band in CSF electrophoresis -
✔✔Multiple sclerosis
,✔✔Cell indicative of kidney disease - ✔✔Tubular epithelial cells
✔✔Species-specific genes for MRSA - ✔✔16S and 23S ribosomal RNA genes
DNA gyrase (gyrA)
Superoxide dismutase (sodA)
✔✔UA findings associated with nephrotic syndrome - ✔✔Oval fat bodies
Fatty and waxy casts
Renal tubular epithelial cells
Heavy proteinuria
Foamy appearance
✔✔Follow up tests for speckled ANA patterns - ✔✔Smith antibodies
SS-A/SS-b+ antibodies
✔✔Microorganism associated with tinea cruris AKA jock itch - ✔✔Epidermophyton
floccosum
✔✔Inactive X-chromosome in the somatic cells of mammalian females that appear as
nuclear appendages - ✔✔Barr body
✔✔Deferral time for terminated pregnancy in the 3rd trimester - ✔✔6 weeks
✔✔Overproduced IgM associated with - ✔✔Waldenstrom's disease
✔✔Common cause of atrophic rhinitis - ✔✔Klebsiella ozaenae
✔✔Clinical symptoms of nephrotic syndrome - ✔✔Swelling
Weight gain from fluid retention
Poor appetite
High BP
✔✔Confirmatory test for circulating lupus anticoagulant - ✔✔Platelet neutralization test
, ✔✔This sexually transmitted parasite displays symptoms in women but men are
frequently asymptomatic
4 anterior flagella and granules along its axostyle - ✔✔Trichomonas vaginalis
✔✔Hypersegmented neutrophils associated with - ✔✔Megaloblastic anemia which is
commonly caused by vitamin B12 deficiency
✔✔Hemosiderin-laden macrophages in CSF sample associated with - ✔✔Intracranial
hemorrhage
✔✔Washed RBC will decrease/prevent which type of RBC transfusion reaction -
✔✔Allergic reaction
Washing cells removes excess plasma proteins
✔✔This organism has dark septate hyphae, large conidia and typically contain 4 cells -
✔✔Curvularia spp.
✔✔Alternaria sp. - ✔✔CHAINED poroconidia HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL SEPTA
CLUB shaped bases
✔✔ADAMSTS13 - ✔✔Cleaves multimers of vWF from multimers into monomers
Lack of causes TTP
Deficiency is either genetic or more commonly: Produce autoantibody
Adult female with autoantibody
✔✔Atypical RBCs associated with post-splenectomy - ✔✔Acanthocytes
Echinocytes
Codocytes
Spherocytes
Schistocytes
Howell-Jolly bodies
✔✔Dubin-Johnson syndrome - ✔✔autosomal recessive, conj hyperbilirubinemia, defect
in bili transport, black color to liver p239
✔✔Organisms known to cause bacterial vaginosis - ✔✔Mobiluncus spp
Gardnerella vaginalis
✔✔Rapidly progressive fungal infection of the sinuses in immunosuppressed or diabetic
patients - ✔✔Phycomycosis
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Clenched fist cellulitis associated with what organism - ✔✔Eikenella corrodens
✔✔CEA tumor marker - ✔✔colorectal cancer
✔✔Intestinal amebiasis symptoms - ✔✔Abdominal cramps
Fever
Diarrhea
Bloody stool
✔✔Type of anemia where inability to incorporate iron into protoporphyrin ring -
✔✔Sideroblastic anemia
✔✔Immunoassay for hCG uses which subunit of hCG - ✔✔Beta
✔✔Parasite typically comes from cat feces - ✔✔Toxoplasma gondii
✔✔This condition made up of small clots made of platelets and large forms of VWF -
✔✔TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura)
✔✔Normal heme contains - ✔✔Four heme and four globin chains
✔✔Detection of MRSA - ✔✔Zone of <10mm with an oxacillin disk on MH agar
Molecular tests for mecA gene
✔✔Drug of choice for Clostridium difficile and MRSA - ✔✔Vancomycin (glycopeptide,
inhibit cell wall synthesis)
✔✔Drugs of choice for pseudomonas aeruginosa and other aerobes - ✔✔Ciprofloxacin,
Norfloxacin (quinolines, inhibit nucleic acid synthesis)
✔✔Drug of choice for UTI, enteric infections - ✔✔Sulfamethoxazole (Sulfonomides,
analogue of PABA)
✔✔Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases - ✔✔Enzymes that give bacteria immunity to
both penicillin and cephalosporin antibiotics
✔✔Tiny GN coccobacilli associated with wild boar - ✔✔Brucella spp.
✔✔This condition is associated with oligoclonal band in CSF electrophoresis -
✔✔Multiple sclerosis
,✔✔Cell indicative of kidney disease - ✔✔Tubular epithelial cells
✔✔Species-specific genes for MRSA - ✔✔16S and 23S ribosomal RNA genes
DNA gyrase (gyrA)
Superoxide dismutase (sodA)
✔✔UA findings associated with nephrotic syndrome - ✔✔Oval fat bodies
Fatty and waxy casts
Renal tubular epithelial cells
Heavy proteinuria
Foamy appearance
✔✔Follow up tests for speckled ANA patterns - ✔✔Smith antibodies
SS-A/SS-b+ antibodies
✔✔Microorganism associated with tinea cruris AKA jock itch - ✔✔Epidermophyton
floccosum
✔✔Inactive X-chromosome in the somatic cells of mammalian females that appear as
nuclear appendages - ✔✔Barr body
✔✔Deferral time for terminated pregnancy in the 3rd trimester - ✔✔6 weeks
✔✔Overproduced IgM associated with - ✔✔Waldenstrom's disease
✔✔Common cause of atrophic rhinitis - ✔✔Klebsiella ozaenae
✔✔Clinical symptoms of nephrotic syndrome - ✔✔Swelling
Weight gain from fluid retention
Poor appetite
High BP
✔✔Confirmatory test for circulating lupus anticoagulant - ✔✔Platelet neutralization test
, ✔✔This sexually transmitted parasite displays symptoms in women but men are
frequently asymptomatic
4 anterior flagella and granules along its axostyle - ✔✔Trichomonas vaginalis
✔✔Hypersegmented neutrophils associated with - ✔✔Megaloblastic anemia which is
commonly caused by vitamin B12 deficiency
✔✔Hemosiderin-laden macrophages in CSF sample associated with - ✔✔Intracranial
hemorrhage
✔✔Washed RBC will decrease/prevent which type of RBC transfusion reaction -
✔✔Allergic reaction
Washing cells removes excess plasma proteins
✔✔This organism has dark septate hyphae, large conidia and typically contain 4 cells -
✔✔Curvularia spp.
✔✔Alternaria sp. - ✔✔CHAINED poroconidia HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL SEPTA
CLUB shaped bases
✔✔ADAMSTS13 - ✔✔Cleaves multimers of vWF from multimers into monomers
Lack of causes TTP
Deficiency is either genetic or more commonly: Produce autoantibody
Adult female with autoantibody
✔✔Atypical RBCs associated with post-splenectomy - ✔✔Acanthocytes
Echinocytes
Codocytes
Spherocytes
Schistocytes
Howell-Jolly bodies
✔✔Dubin-Johnson syndrome - ✔✔autosomal recessive, conj hyperbilirubinemia, defect
in bili transport, black color to liver p239
✔✔Organisms known to cause bacterial vaginosis - ✔✔Mobiluncus spp
Gardnerella vaginalis
✔✔Rapidly progressive fungal infection of the sinuses in immunosuppressed or diabetic
patients - ✔✔Phycomycosis
