The Temperature Tetls the Tale Many of the 2500 students and employees of a publ

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The Temperature Tetls the Tale Many of the 2500 students and employees of a public school system developed diarrheal illness on May 2, 2007. The cafeteria served chicken on that day. On May 1, part of the chicken wasplaced in water-filled pans and cooked in an oven for 2 hours at a dial setting of 177° C. The oven was turned off and the chicken was left ovemi nt in the warm oven. Theremainder of the chicken was cooked for 2 hours for a steam cooker and then left in the device overnight at the lowest possible setting, 43°C. Two serotypes of a gram- negative, cytochrome oxidase negative, lactose-negative rods were isolated from 32 patients 1. 2. 3. 4. S. 6. 7. What is the most likely pathogen? How could this outbreak have been prev en ted? What microbiological tests were dane to test for this organism? What would be the results for the above test (s)? What is meant by cytochrome axidase negative and lactose negative? Does this infection need to be reported to the state health department? Why is it advisable not to treat this disease with antimicrobialsexcept in seriously ill patients?

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