San Anthony Case Study

The University of Texas at San Antonio has had an outbreak, but nobody knows what pathogen is to blame. The infirmary has been filled with students seeking help. Sue is 18 and is one of the students in the university and she’s been feeling quite ill. Her roommate Jill and their acquaintances Maggie and Maria have been feeling sick as well. Anthony, Maria’s friend, has lately noticed that he has been very tired while he is reporting the school games for the school paper. Arnie, a fellow peer of Anthony, is frequently at the school games taking pictures has been feeling ill as well. Marco, Sue’s biology partner, feels bad and his neighbor Alvin, has been having a sore throat, but blames it in a concert he had gone to a night before. BLAST technology uses, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to isolate the DNA so that they can tell what is the Pathogen DNA and not mix it up with the patients DNA.
ELISA tests are also used to detect antigens before the body starts creating antibodies and building immunity against the pathogen. ELISA tests are used to find out if you are negative or positive of the pathogen tested for. When conducting the ELISA tests, you can confuse the substance which will make you redo all the steps. If you skip or miss a step in the ELISA tests, your results will be incorrect. When using the wash buffer in the tests, you have to be very careful and pay close attention to it. Being careless will lead to your results being incorrect and no repair. Sue, Jill, Maria, and Marco have been diagnosed with meningitis. Sue was very tired with heavy fatigue, had a strong headache with a fever of 100.6°F. Jill was also fatigued and also with a small fever of 99.7°F. Maria had the strongest fever between Jill and Sue at 103°F. Marco had very strong headache and heavy fatigue but had no