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Question: Sally, who is pregnant, went shopping with a friend. Two days later, the friend calls Sally and tells her, she just got diagnosed with rubella. Sally calls her OB-GYN and schedules an appointment for that afternoon. The doctor is not highly concerned, since Sally says she has been vaccinated against rubella, even though her friend has not been vaccinated. The physician orders a latex agglutination test to screen for rubella antibodies, and the result with the undiluted serum was positive.
1. Does Sally have rubella?
2. What does the positive result means? (Hint: remember how long antibodies take to be formed)
3. What type of antibodies were most likely tested in this screening?
4. What type of antibodies were most likely tested when the friend got diagnosed with rubella?
5. Based on this case, is rubella vaccination a way to prevent rubella infection? How about prevent rubella infection for the unborn child?
6. Should Sally unfriend this person?