Best Of The Best

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Brain Heart Infusion (BHI)

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Medium of choice for culturing the yeast form of dimorphic fungi

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Lactophenol Cotton Blue

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Most useful stain/emulsifying agent for fungi

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Germ Tube Test

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Most basic and easiest test for demonstration of yeast form of fungi (Candida albicans)

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Saborauds Dextrose Agar

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Best culture medium for isolation of fungi

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Bronchial Washings

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Best specimen for the isolation of L. pneumophilia

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Nasopharyngeal swab

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Best specimens for the isolation of Bordetella pertussis

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25 to 30 degrees celcius

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Optimal temperature for the isolation of Mycobacterium marinum

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4 degrees celcius

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Optimal temperature for the storage of specimensfor the purpose of isolating viruses

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Refrigerator Temperature

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Ideal temp to hold a fecal specimen

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1.18

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Specific gravity of the approved zinc sulfate for flotation method

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Charcoal Cephalexin Agar

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Best culture media for the isolation of B. pertussis

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Human embryonic fibroblast agar

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Best culture media for the isolation of cytomegalovirus

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Campy Blood Agar

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Best culture media for the isolation of Salmonella enteritidis

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Buffered Charcoal Yeast Agar/Extract

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Best culture media for the isolation of Legionella pneumophilia

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Human Blood Tween

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Best culture media for the isolation of Gardnerella vaginalis

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India (China) Ink

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Routinely used to examine cultures of Cryptococcus Neoformans

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Giemsa stain/Wright's stain

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Excellent stain for the yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum in tissue or blood smears

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Methylene Blue stain

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Stain used mainly to see the etiologic agent of tinea versicolor

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Periodic Acid Schiff

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One of the best stains for visualizing fungi in scrapings or in tissues

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Seller's Stain

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Most effective for staining cells of Cryptococcus neoformans in smears of infected brain tissue

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Chlamydospore (Cornmeal) Agar

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Used worldwide to identify Candida albicans

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Hair Baiting

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Used to isolate many dermatophytes

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Formalin-ether Sedimentation

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Preferred concentrated method for the isolation of operculated eggs

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Inulin Clearance Test

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Gold standard for clearance Test

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Kjeldahl

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Standard reference method of protein based on nitrogen

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Hexokinase

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The best enzymatic method for glucose determination

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O-toluidine

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The best non-enzymatic method for glucose determination

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8.6 to10

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Optimal ph for Alkaline Phosphatase

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4.9 to 5

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Optimal pH for Acid Phosphatase

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6.9 to 7

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Optimal pH for Amylase

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7.8 to 8

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Optimal pH for Lipase

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7.1

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Optimal ph for AST and ALT

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9

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Optimal pH for CK forward reaction

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6.8

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Optimal pH for CK backward reaction

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6.8 to 7

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Optimal pH for Aldolase

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API 20C

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Gold standard for carbohydrate assimilation testing of yeast

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Lloyd's method

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Reference method for Creatinine

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Autoclave

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Best method of sterilization

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Cyanmethemoglobin

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Best method of hemoglobin determination

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Mueller Hinton Agar (MHA)

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Recommendedmedium for antimicrobial susceptibility testing

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0.5 McFarland Standard

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Standard used in adjusting the turbidity of suspension of test organism

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Serum

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The most appropriate clinical specimen for the assay of antimicrobial agents

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Coagulase Test

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Best single criterion of pathogenicity of Staphylococcus aureus

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First Morning

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Preferred urine specimen for cytology

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Peroxidase stain

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Recommended stain for demonstration of Auer rods

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10% formol saline

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Recommended fixative for central nervous tissues and general postmortem tissues

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Neutral Buffered Formalin

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Recommended for preservation and storage of surgical, postmortem, and research specimens; best fixative for demonstration of elastic fibre and iron pigments

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Formol-corrosive (Formol sublimate) Formol Mercuric Chloride Solution

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Recommended fixative for routine post mortem tissues

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Mercuric Chloride

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Fixative of choice for preservation of cell detail in tissue photography and is recommended for renal tissues, fibrin connective tissues and muscles

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Zenker's fluid (mercuric chloride plus glacial acetic acid to be added just before use)

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Recommended for fixing small pieces of liver, spleen, connective tissue fibres, and nuclei

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Helly's Solution (Zenker-Formol) (Mercuric chloride plus 40% formaldehyde to be added just before use)

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An excellent micro anatomic fixative for pituitary gland, bone marrow and blood containing organs such as spleen and liver

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Heidenhain's Susa Solution

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Recommended for tumor biopsies especially of the skin and excellent cytologic fixative

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Regaud's (Moller's) Fluid

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Recommended for demonstration of chromatin, mitochondria, mitotic figures, golgi bodies, RBC and colloid containing tissues

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Orth's fluid

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Recommended for study of early degenerative process and tissue necrosis; it demonstrates Rickettsiae and other bacteria

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Bouin's Solution

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Recommended for fixation of embryos

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Carnoy's fluid

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Recommended for fixing chromosomes lymph glands and urgent biopsies (fastest fixative: 1-3 hours)

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Newcomer's fluid

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Recommended for fixing you mucopolysaccharides and nuclear proteins

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Acetone

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Recommended for the study of water diffusible enzymes especially phosphatases and lipases

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Bone marrow preparation

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Best specimen for demonstration of ferric iron

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Afternoon specimens (2-4)

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Ideal specimen for urobilinogen determination

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Sodium polyethanol sulfonate (SPS)

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Best anticoagulant for blood culture

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Sweat chloride

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Best index for cystic fibrosis of the pancreas

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Throat culture

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Gold standard for streptococcal infection in children

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Citrates

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Anticoagulant of choice for blood coagulation studies

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Heparin

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Anticoagulant of choice for ABG and open heart surgery

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EDTA

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Anticoagulant of choice for cellular morphology

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Fluorides

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Anticoagulant of choice for glucose determination in which the sample is to be transported or whenever analysis is to be delayed

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Balanced oxalate

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Anticoagulant of choice in ESR determination