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The correct answer is C, the patient has just been given a barium enema.
Stools collected immediately following a barium enema are unsuitable for
laboratory examination.
Keeping a specimen overnight in the refrigerator (answer A) is
not a reason to reject a specimen for parasitology examination.
Parasites keep their morphological integrity if the specimen
is kept refrigerated for up to 48
hours when preservatives are not available. Diarrheic
stools (answer B) and stools from patients with no symptoms of
infections (answer D) are commonly analyzed with valid results
obtained in diagnostic
laboratories.
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