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(0001) Scenario Carol is a 68-year-old woman who considers herself "a little plump. She has smoked for most of her adult life and was dagnosed with Type Il diabetes just over a year ago. Carol ourrently has to take medication to control her blood sugar She is prone to bronchitis and sinusitis, and she regularly takes an antbiotic to treat her respiratory tract infections After har most recent bout with bronchitis, Carol developed diarrhea, which became increasingly more severe. Signs and Symptoms Carols diarrhea did not resolve, and instead it became looser and more sevwere, with crampy abdominal pain. When she noticed there was blood in the toilet, shฮ wont to her family physician He ordered blood tests and a fecal culture, which were collected at the office and sent to a lab for testing. Because the diarrhea was causing axtreme fluctuations in her blood sugar lavels, she was hospitalized. A colonoscopy of Carol's bowel revealed that she had developed plaques with exudate on the epithelial surfaces of her large intestine

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Enzyme immune assay is the laboratory test which helps to confirm clostridium difficille.three specime is collected for testing.in which one is positive,patient is considered positive for clostridium difficille.average sensitivity of this test is 60%