Question

Recently, there was a report about an outbreak with individuals complaining of
symptoms of diarrhea, blurred vision, malaise, difficulty in swallowing and speaking,
nausea and vomiting after consuming from a canned drink.What organism would you suspect to be responsible considering the product implicated and outline sequentially the steps you would take to confirm the etiologic agent responsible for the disease.

Answer 1

Clostridium botulinum is the organism, which is responsible for these symptoms.

The following steps must be taken to confirm the etiologic agent:

1.Collecting biological material from the patient.

2.Carrying out express diagnostics by the ELISA method, imunofluorescence or PCR.