. What signs and symptoms are Santi experiencing? 2. In what way the hamburger may have been contaminated? 3. What method of transmission took place in the case of Santi? 4. What portal of entry did the bacteria use to cause this infection?
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Santi is a three-year old healthy and active little boy. His family took a trip to the beach several hours from their home. His parents had booked a suite in a beautiful beach resort and the children were so eager to get there that they didn't even want to stop for lunch during the four-hour drive. The parents compromised and decided to pick up some hamburgers from a drive through fast food restaurant just off the highway. Initially Santi felt fine after eating his hamburger, but three days after their arrival at the resort, he started complaining of a stomach ache, and he was running a fever of 38 C. The next day he began to have diarrhea, and the following day his mother was alarmed to see blood in the diarrhea. Growing worried, she left her older daughter and her husband at the hotel and drove Santi to the nearest hospital emergency room. At the hospital, the physician then ordered blood tests and a stool culture and gave Santi an empiric course of antibiotics.
Like many commercially produced food products, the hamburger that Santi ate contained meat from many different animals raised in confined animal feeding operations. Lakes of animal manure frequently surround these factory farms and during slaughter, workers are often forced to rapidly separate the useable meat from waste.
1. What signs and symptoms are Santi experiencing?
2. In what way the hamburger may have been contaminated?
3. What method of transmission took place in the case of Santi?
4. What portal of entry did the bacteria use to cause this infection?
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