Chapter 21, Problem 3CT

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The bacterium that might be responsible for the death of the man who died after eating sea urchin.

Introduction:

In the present case, a patient arrived into the emergency room complaining about abdominal cramping and persistent diarrhea. However, he fell into coma while waiting. Unfortunately, he never regained consciousness and died. Through family history, it was revealed that he has not travelled out of the country in a while however, they all dined at a restaurant and the patient alone had sea urchin in dinner the night before he died.