KROK 1 2019 – Question 30 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
The bacteriological laboratory needs to prepare for analysis of materials that are suspected to be contaminated with spores of anthrax causative agent. What diagnostic preparation allows for quick detection of these spores?
- A. Anti-anthrax fluorescent serum
- B. Enzyme-tagged immunoglobulin
- C. Anti-anthrax immunoglobulin
- D. Standard anthrax antigen
- E. Monoclonal antibodies to anthrax causative agent
Hint
Separate preparations that treat, that serve as controls and that detect; then ask which detection reagent gives a rapid, direct microscopic read-out of the spores.
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