MICI 4218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Titer, Fruit Salad, Bacon
12 May 2021
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Mici 4218 lecture 23 march 12, 2021 investigation of a gastrointestinal outbreak. For this investigation, you are the consultant microbiologist in charge of the infection control team at the hospital. Initial notification: nov 5th: you receive a call that there are two people in emergency room with hemorrhagic colitis (bloody diarrhea, both individuals had been in-patients the previous weeks (husband 83 and wife 81). This is likely a bacterial infection because viral enteritis usually causes little/no blood diarrhea. Since the couple had left the hospital and were re-admitted, they could have had an exposure (ie. eaten something bad) outside of the hospital setting (community acquired infection). The couple is husband and wife so presumably they have been eating the same thing. There is no cost for concern for a hospital acquired infection yet, but the microbiologist would keep an eye on this. Notification: nov 6th: several more patients on two wards are now diagnosed with blood diarrhea.
