Exam 17: Hepatitis

A car accident occurred right outside the hospital. Your friend Eddie who works in administration ran to the accident victim. He pressed a bandana over the cut on the victim's arm that was spurting blood until the emergency crew came. The victim was positive for hepatitis Be antigen. Is Eddie, who has not been vaccinated, at risk?

Which of the following is true?

A patient who comes to the health clinic with nausea, abdominal pain, fever, malaise, anorexia, dark urine, clay-colored stool, and jaundice should be tested for

A patient who uses drugs intravenously and comes to the clinic with all the signs and symptoms of hepatitis should be tested for

Using the protocol with the high signal to cut-off ratio, a patient's sample was tested three times by HCV EIA with a high single to cut-off ratio. The next step is to

Is it a concern that Lily worked with and served raw fish? She did not serve the fish from Southeast Asia that she was given; she ate all of that herself.

The incidence of hepatitis B dramatically dropped in 1991 as the result of the

Your friend Lizbeth received her hepatitis B vaccine 2 years ago. She had her titer checked and she had a great immune response. This morning she got a needle stick from a patient with fulminant hepatitis B and hepatitis D. The source patient tested negative for hepatitis C and HIV. What should Lizbeth do?

A patient who comes into the clinic states that she has very recent known exposure to hepatitis A. She has not received a hepatitis A vaccine. What should be done?

A patient named Lily who works at an area sushi restaurant is looking rather yellow and feels acutely ill. She loves raw seafood and had a special treat when a customer brought her some sushi from Southeast Asia. The customer is also ill. Lily is given her test results; she has non-A non-B hepatitis. She most likely has

Hepatitis D is a

A patient has severe hepatitis B and has been admitted to the hospital. You realize that Simon, one of the clinical lab scientists in the lab that you supervise has been exposed to this patient's blood. Simon has not been vaccinated. What should be done?

Intravenous drug users are at risk for

Antibody to which of the following is not protective?

Which of the following assays is most like a western blot?

Six main genotypes of this virus exist; they are

Which of the following indicates that the hepatitis B infection in a patient with hepatitis B is resolving?

This virus is said to be a quasi-species because of its high mutation rate. It is

Liver damage in hepatitis can be measured by measuring which of the following?

Pegylated interferon is used in the