A New Technologist Is Busy One Night and Has to Perform

question 10

Multiple Choice

A new technologist is busy one night and has to perform an RPR on a serum sample.He does not calibrate the needle delivering the antigen and the needle is delivering a larger volume of antigen than it is supposed to.What kind of error can this cause on the test result?

• A) laboratory-induced false-negative due to postzone
• B) laboratory-induced false-positive due to prozone
• C) biological false-positive
• D) biological false-negative

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