The food borne illness I have chosen is salmonella. Question 1: What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? The infectious agent (pathogen) that causes salmonella is called salmonella enteriditis. The bacteria is larger than a virus; but‚ is visible to the eye with the microscope. It is rod-shaped‚ gram negative‚ non-motile bacteria that does not form spores. Interestingly enough it communicates to its fellow bacteria via AHL. It infects the cell‚ multiplies
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that the family consumed spoiled food considering that their fridge broke early in the day and they ate the food that was in there later on. My blast came up with a 99.6% match with Salmonella typhimurium. This seems to be an accurate match considering the symptoms related with a Salmonella typhimurium infection. Salmonella causes gastroenteritis with symptoms of diarrhea‚ vomiting‚ fever‚ and abdominal pain with elderly people‚ children and pregnant women being at greatest risk of developing infection
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Experiment 21: Salmonella and food contamination Purpose /Objective Objective: To test salmonella in spinach sample over five lab periods. Food contamination of salmonella can cause serious illness. Only small numbers of salmonella need to be found for a food product to be considered contaminated. Tests used Pre-enrichment- lactose broth Selective enrichment broth- with Tetrathionate Brilliant Broth Selective Plating- Brilliant Green Agar Isolation of salmonella conformation- is preformed
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Jessica Beckman Bio 351 - General Microbiology Concordia University‚ Irvine February 24‚ 2012 Identifying Salmonella choleraesuis using Several Microbiology Lab Techniques The purpose of this study was to determine what an unknown bacteria was using several different microbiology lab techniques including an API test‚ an oxidase test‚ a gram stain‚ a hanging drop slide‚ and morphology identification. The unknown bacterium‚ which was contaminated with Serratia marcescens‚ was isolated by
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unmarked‚ unopened tin can and explains that the store’s owners are threatening to fire him and all his staff if they cannot keep track of the items that they sell. He asks you to help him figure out what is inside. There is one catch: He does not want to open the can‚ just in case there is something expensive inside. During this week’s discussion‚ your instructor will play the role of the Circus Supermarket store manager. Your instructor will answer any questions you have about the can‚ and you should
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author of the poem‚ “The Road Not Taken‚” writes about a point in his life when he reaches a divide. He illustrates this concept through a fork in the woods‚ something that many people reading this would find themselves relating to. This section of the poem‚ along with the rest of the poem‚ is composed in such a way that every line from there onwards further explains how the story unfolds once one of the paths between the two that face a person‚ is chosen. It can be said that Frost understands the
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Outbreak at Watersedge Outbreak at Watersedge is a game that incorporates public health by creating a mystery to solve. An outbreak of severe diarrhea has taken place and the player must find the origin of the mini epidemic. The discovery game explores professional roles in public health‚ collecting data to support the conclusion and eventually finding out the cause of the outbreak. As a player‚ I mapped individual’s placement before they contracted the illness‚ collected information of where to
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viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). The virus is named after the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)‚ which is near the site of the first recognized outbreak in 1976 at a mission hospital run by Flemish nuns. It remained largely obscure until 1989 when several widely publicized outbreaks occurred among monkeys in the United States. The virus interferes with the endothelial cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and with coagulation. As the blood vessel
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In 9th August 2009‚ ten guests felt uncomfortable after having buffet dinner in Regal Kowloon Hotel. This was the second food poisoning outbreak related to hotel’s buffet in that week. Food poisoning in hotel’s buffet should not be new to you as it happens occasionally. But do you know why it is so common? And what safety practises can be done to reduce the potential harm on buffets’ customers? From the news‚ we know that both hotels suffered in food poisonings provided high-risk food such as oysters
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One outbreak was in Sudan and the other in Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1976. E.Sudan heavily affected ‘the towns of Nzara and Maridi’ (Pourrut‚ X et al. 2005 p.1006). Over the period of 4 months‚ 150 people died out of the 284 people infected bringing the mortality rate to 53%. The E.Zaire outbreak was much more severe. It hugely effect individuals in Yambuku as well as villages that lived off
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