ASCP MLS LATEST NEW EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔what happens to CO2, PCO2, and pH when blood is left around for an extended
period of time? - ✔✔low, low, and high
✔✔which analyte is measured in case of eclampsia - ✔✔Mg
✔✔a alcoholic person who went to the emergency arrhythmia, what should be
measured - ✔✔ethanol , Mg, K something like that
✔✔some person showing overdose to propanamide (i think)but no drug in his blood -
✔✔phenobarbital
✔✔VDRL question - ✔✔importance for CSF testing
✔✔Donation time...Wait 4 weeks after immunizations for - ✔✔German Measles
(Rubella), MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella), Chicken Pox and Shingles.
✔✔Wait 21 days after immunization for - ✔✔hepatitis B as long as you are not given the
immunization for exposure to hepatitis B.
, ✔✔Can donate if you just had these vaccines: - ✔✔influenza, tetanus or meningitis,
providing you are symptom-free and fever-free. Includes the Tdap vaccine.
HPV Vaccine (example, Gardasil).
✔✔Arixtra (fondaparinux), Coumadin, Warfilone, Jantoven (warfarin) and Heparin
(prescription blood thinners); must wait how many days after stopping to donate? - ✔✔7
days
✔✔Wait how long to donate after exposure to Hep B and received Hepatitis B Immune
Globulin ? - ✔✔12 months
✔✔how long between whole blood donations? - ✔✔8 weeks
✔✔Bacteria isolated from a wound TSI A/A, oxidase (+), The most likely organism is -
✔✔Aeromonas
✔✔Plate cocci in chains. Patient with endocarditis, alpha hemolysis, bile esculin (+),
NaCl (no growth). The most likely organism is: - ✔✔Strep. Galloliticus (bovis) (group D)
✔✔Patient with pharyngitis complicates to glomerulonephritis - ✔✔Strep. Pyogenes
✔✔Preferred rapid test for Legionella pneumophilia Ag - ✔✔Ag in urine
✔✔Bacteria LAP(-), Bile esculin (+), NaCl (growth), PYR(-) - ✔✔Leuconostoc
✔✔Organism isolated in Hecktoen: TSI K/A, H2S (+), PAD (-), Lysine decarboxylase (-),
Urea (+), citrate (+). What should the technologist do? - ✔✔Report as normal flora
✔✔Child with walking pneumonia due to Mycoplasma and is prescribed penicillin. 2
weeks later, still sick. What happened? - ✔✔The microorganism doesn't have cellular
wall
✔✔Latex agglutination for S. aureus - ✔✔Protein A and coagulase
✔✔Child with cat scratch, BGN, catalase (-), oxidase (-), motile. The most likely
organism is - ✔✔Bartonella henselae
✔✔Difference between P. aeruginosa and P. putida? - ✔✔Growth on 42C
✔✔Bacteria grows pink on McConkey, Indol(-), citrate (+), Lysine decarboxylase (-),
ONPG (+) - ✔✔Enterobacter cloacae
✔✔Parasite that doesn't present schizont and trophozoite - ✔✔P. falciparum
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔what happens to CO2, PCO2, and pH when blood is left around for an extended
period of time? - ✔✔low, low, and high
✔✔which analyte is measured in case of eclampsia - ✔✔Mg
✔✔a alcoholic person who went to the emergency arrhythmia, what should be
measured - ✔✔ethanol , Mg, K something like that
✔✔some person showing overdose to propanamide (i think)but no drug in his blood -
✔✔phenobarbital
✔✔VDRL question - ✔✔importance for CSF testing
✔✔Donation time...Wait 4 weeks after immunizations for - ✔✔German Measles
(Rubella), MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella), Chicken Pox and Shingles.
✔✔Wait 21 days after immunization for - ✔✔hepatitis B as long as you are not given the
immunization for exposure to hepatitis B.
, ✔✔Can donate if you just had these vaccines: - ✔✔influenza, tetanus or meningitis,
providing you are symptom-free and fever-free. Includes the Tdap vaccine.
HPV Vaccine (example, Gardasil).
✔✔Arixtra (fondaparinux), Coumadin, Warfilone, Jantoven (warfarin) and Heparin
(prescription blood thinners); must wait how many days after stopping to donate? - ✔✔7
days
✔✔Wait how long to donate after exposure to Hep B and received Hepatitis B Immune
Globulin ? - ✔✔12 months
✔✔how long between whole blood donations? - ✔✔8 weeks
✔✔Bacteria isolated from a wound TSI A/A, oxidase (+), The most likely organism is -
✔✔Aeromonas
✔✔Plate cocci in chains. Patient with endocarditis, alpha hemolysis, bile esculin (+),
NaCl (no growth). The most likely organism is: - ✔✔Strep. Galloliticus (bovis) (group D)
✔✔Patient with pharyngitis complicates to glomerulonephritis - ✔✔Strep. Pyogenes
✔✔Preferred rapid test for Legionella pneumophilia Ag - ✔✔Ag in urine
✔✔Bacteria LAP(-), Bile esculin (+), NaCl (growth), PYR(-) - ✔✔Leuconostoc
✔✔Organism isolated in Hecktoen: TSI K/A, H2S (+), PAD (-), Lysine decarboxylase (-),
Urea (+), citrate (+). What should the technologist do? - ✔✔Report as normal flora
✔✔Child with walking pneumonia due to Mycoplasma and is prescribed penicillin. 2
weeks later, still sick. What happened? - ✔✔The microorganism doesn't have cellular
wall
✔✔Latex agglutination for S. aureus - ✔✔Protein A and coagulase
✔✔Child with cat scratch, BGN, catalase (-), oxidase (-), motile. The most likely
organism is - ✔✔Bartonella henselae
✔✔Difference between P. aeruginosa and P. putida? - ✔✔Growth on 42C
✔✔Bacteria grows pink on McConkey, Indol(-), citrate (+), Lysine decarboxylase (-),
ONPG (+) - ✔✔Enterobacter cloacae
✔✔Parasite that doesn't present schizont and trophozoite - ✔✔P. falciparum
