Author Question: A physician suspects herpes virus infection in a patient with genital lesions. She uses a cotton ... (Read 51 times)

Kthamas · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

A physician suspects herpes virus infection in a patient with genital lesions. She uses a cotton tipped swab to collect specimen from a vesicular lesion, places it in viral transport medium, and refrigerates it prior to transport.

This specimen is unacceptable because
A) the wrong specimen type was collected. B) viral transport medium was used.
C) the specimen was refrigerated. D) the wrong swab was used.

Question 2

The pathognomonic urinalysis finding in acute pyelonephritis is:

A) WBCs and WBC casts. B) fatty casts.
C) RBCs and hemoglobin casts. D) bacteria.