Essays on Shiga

Application of Epidemiology – Case Study

Application of Epidemiology – Case Study

Information Summative

The statistical analysis of the Good Health Hospital’s medical records reveals the progression of Escherichia coli infection among four hospitalized patients who reported bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting and nausea, loss of appetite, flatulence and pyrexia since last week. The summary of these cases presented below in the context of their further analysis. The findings by the CDC revealed that the E. coli manifestations emanated among the affected patients after consuming the spoiled food items attributing to meats and vegetables.

Background Information (Indicating the Requirement of Further Investigation)

Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH) describes various nosocomial infections reported within a ...

E COLI O157

WHAT IS ECO157? Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 or otherwise known as “EHEC O157” is also called as the “verocytotoxin” which produces “shiga toxin” and the end result is EcO157 (Islam, et al., 2014, p.1). The E coli O157 has been reported as a food-borne pathogen known world-wide. One of the harmful effects of E coli O157 is that it can create hemorrhagic colitis that carries severe sequelae such as the hemolytic uremic syndrome as the product of the “shiga toxin” that came from the organism that can act on the human kidney, intestine and other parenchymatous organs (Islam, et ...