Question

A new disease is infecting humans in a meat packaging plant. Appy Koch’s postulates and use a sequence diagram (of your own design) to describe the procedure you would follow to identify the specific pathogen.

Answer 1

Answer:

The microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms.

The microorganism must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture.

The cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism.

The microorganism must be reisolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent.

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