a 65 year old male patient is admitted to the ER with fatigue, dizziness, dehydration, and is not lucid. His wife tells the doctor that he has had diarrhea for at least 5 days and has been up all the toilet paper she has been stockpipling. The patient is unable to answer questions and the wife does not know what the stool looked like, says they have not travelled out of the US in the past 6 months, can't remember what they ate last week, and has no other relavant information. a. What type of specimen should you collect? b. How should the specimen be handled? c. What type of tests would you run? List at least 5, with an explanation of why you choose each. d. There are many microorganisms that can cause diarrhea. How will you decide which microbe is the culprit?
a 65 year old male patient is admitted to the ER with fatigue, dizziness, dehydration, and is not lucid. His wife tells the doctor that he has had diarrhea for at least 5 days and has been up all the toilet paper she has been stockpipling. The patient is unable to answer questions and the wife does not know what the stool looked like, says they have not travelled out of the US in the past 6 months, can't remember what they ate last week, and has no other relavant information.
a. What type of specimen should you collect?
b. How should the specimen be handled?
c. What type of tests would you run? List at least 5, with an explanation of why you choose each.
d. There are many microorganisms that can cause diarrhea. How will you decide which microbe is the culprit?
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