Describe how Salmonella serotyping can be used in public health practice.

Individually apply the epidemiology skills learned in a real-world case study example. Prepare accurate and reasonable conclusions from the data presented. Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice. 

After completing this case study, the student should be able to:

● Gain experience with an international example.

● Describe the signs and symptoms, means of diagnosis, and control of salmonellosis.

● Describe how Salmonella serotyping can be used in public health practice.

● Given a disease, describe the desired characteristics of a surveillance system for that disease.

● Discuss how the inclusion of the laboratory in the surveillance of a disease impacts the characteristics of the surveillance system and the usefulness of the data.

● Calculate the incidence of a disease if given the number of cases and population size.

● Characterize a health problem by time, place, and person (e.g., perform descriptive epidemiology).

● Create and interpret a graph.

● Interpret the measure of association for a case-control study.

This is an asynchronous adaptation of a synchronous case study discussion. This case study has been split into three separate sections to better align with our course materials and increase group discussion. For some of these questions, there is no right answer as it is intentionally up to your discretion. Only submit one document. Grading will be based on the rubric below.  

Actions and Instructions

1. Read the case definition for the disease/agent – Salmonella (Understand how the disease/agent is defined)

1. Case definitions (CDC) https://ndc.services.cdc.gov/case-definitions/salmonellosis-2017/

2. Read the investigation procedure for disease/agent – Salmonellosis (Familiarize yourself with how the case study gathered its information)

3. See attached pdf file for investigation procedure 

4. Skim the investigation form for disease/agent – Salmonellosis (Familiarize yourself with how data is gathered in the field) 

1. Investigation form See attached pdf file for investigation form

5. Read each section of the case study one by one. 

Use your own words meaning – Complete this independently, and when using reference material turn it into your own language with a citation to the author.

You may either use in-text citations and create a reference page or add relevant citations to the bottom of each question.