BIOS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Clinical Case Definition, Protozoa, The Massive (Comics)

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Chapter 14: the massive waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidium infections, milwaukee, wisconsin. Common sense city of milwaukee health department received calls from citizens complaining of gastrointestinal illness. An unusual number of individuals with similar gastrointestinal illness. Although the agent was not yet known, initial impression was waterborne. Aggressively testing diarrhea stool specimens for protozoan infections, with specific emphasis on testing for cryptosporidium and st. luke"s hospital lab notified steve that they detected crypto oocysts in stools from 4 patients. 9 teams focused on separate investigation components and all of which involved public health personnel, were created during the early phase of the outbreak investigation and were staffed by various combinations of city of milwaukee and. Early in the investigation, they examined clinical signs and symptoms of illness and illness data among those with lab-confirmed cryptosporidium infection to generate a reliable clinical case definition. By projecting the overall attack rate onto the 5 county population, estimated during.

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