Professors instructions:
In lab you selected a pathogen to create a case study. As you write your case study think about how you can give enough information to allow your fellow students to identify the pathogen without making it too easy. Several diseases have similarities in their presentation so you want to give details or test results to help your classmates identify the correct pathogen. The points will be assigned for your post of a case study and they will become a study tool (hint, hint). Therefore, PLEASE DON'T POST THE ANSWER TO THE CASE! We want each student to be able to work through the cases at their own pace and not be influenced by others posting the answers. Feel free to comment on or ask questions about one another's cases but don't put up a diagnosis. Look at for my example of a case study below:
Professors Example for other disease:
You are working in the ER one evening when a frantic mother brings in her 6-week old baby boy. The boy has a bright read rash covering his trunk and neck and the skin looks to be peeling. The baby is clearly in pain and has a fever. You take a skin scraping and find Gram + cocci that are catalase +. What is the likely infection here? What is the pathogen?
My assigned disease is Conjunctivitis by N. gonorrhea.