Cold Agglutinins: What Affects The Test
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Taking antibiotics, especially penicillin and cephalosporins.
- Having certain conditions that can give false-positive results. These include measles, pneumonia, infectious mononucleosis, malaria, peripheral arterial disease, congenital syphilis, cirrhosis, anemia, multiple myeloma, chickenpox, and some tropical diseases.
| Last updated: | June 12, 2008 |
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| Author: | Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS |
| Reviewed By: | Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine, W. David Colby IV, MSc, MD, FRCPC - Infectious Disease |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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