Why Should the Laboratory Professional Look for Unexpected Structures in Smears

question 16

Multiple Choice

Why should the laboratory professional look for unexpected structures in smears?

• A) Large granules, grains, or fungal forms, such as spherules or fungal mats, can best be recognized at low power and give the tech and the physician an insight to the infectious process occurring at that site.
• B) Small numbers of organisms in samples from sterile sites must be seriously considered.
• C) The inflammatory cells that do migrate into the area of the infection can be lysed, and patients with leukopenia may also have fewer inflammatory cells within their inflammatory debris.
• D) Debris is characteristic of particular organisms.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

Standard error measures the dispersion of sample means around the population mean, providing an insight into the precision of a sample mean as an estimate of the population mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, within which there is a certain level of confidence that the true population parameter lies.

Mean

The mean is the arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the count of the values.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.