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microb Discussion Topics Discussion 4 A 4-year old girl presents at the emergenc

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microb Discussion Topics Discussion 4 A 4-year old girl presents at the emergency roonm with bloody diarrhea, fever and vomiting. The child's mother reports that the child has had these symptoms for about 24 hours and she has not passed any urine for about 12 hours The child is enrolled in a day care center and the group had recently made a field trip to a fast food place to learn about different jobs. The children had a lunch of ground beef, fries and cola after meeting with different workers. This field trip was 4 days earlier on Friday. The chilod had a temperature of 39 C and showed physical signs of dehydration. Blood samples drawn showed evidence of greatly reduced kidney function and lysed red blood cells Answer the following Questions 1. What is your diagnosis here? What is 2. What pathogenic feature of this organism 3. What were the critical features to your organism is responsible? caused the severity of this problem? diagnosis?

Explanation / Answer

1. Culture of a stool specimen in media and see Immobilization test. V. cholerae.

2. Cholerae toxin - Endotoxin

3. Vibrio cholerae of the O1 or O139 serogroups are responsible for disease. To differentiate the different subtypes form this bacteria.