(localized epidemic) - more cases of a particular disease than expected in a given area or among a specialized group of people over a particular period of time.
What is outbreak
100
The steps that obtain background information.
What is Step 1 - Prepare for field work, Step 2 - Establish the Existence of an Outbreak, Step 3 - Verify the Diagnosis
100
Type of organism (bacteria, virus, or parasite) is the biggest cause of food borne illness?
What is Bacteria
100
Event Parameters (what can you bring)
What is 1 sheet of paper that can contain information on both sides and a calculator.
200
Listeria monocytogenes is commonly found in what type of food?
What is unpasteurized milk, cheese and deli meats.
200
an animate intermediary in the indirect transmission of an agent that carries the agent that carries the agent from a reservoir to a susceptible host.
What is a vector
200
a chart of specific cases including information about each case used in step 4.
What is a line listing
200
True or False: Foodborne illnesses are underreported
True
200
Event format
exam-based, station-based or a combination of both.
300
the patient has diarrhea, dark urine, jaundice and flu like symptoms, what is the most likely food borne culprit?
What is Hepatitis A
300
A physical object that serves to transmit an infectious agent from person to person.
What is a fomite
300
Types of descriptive studies (step 5)
What is case report, correlative studies, cross sectional.
300
The most susceptible populations in terms of foodborne illness include:
infants/children, pregnant women, the elderly
300
Process skills
What are hypothesis, observation, inference, predictions, variable analysis, data analysis, calculations and conclusions.
400
the most common cause of "food poisoning" or viral gastroenteritis
What is Norovirus
400
An infectious disease that is transmissible from animals to humans.
What is zoonosis
400
Cohort and case control studies are done in step 7 for what purpose
What is to evaluate hypothesis
400
What is the frequency of foodborne illness in America?
1 in 6 Americans
400
Questions the test will be based on
What is study design and data collection, creating graphic displays of data, interpreting trends and patterns of epidemiologic data and communication results.
500
All of these food borne illnesses present with bloody diarrhea.
What is Campylobacteriosis, E. coli, Shigella, Vibrio
500
An aggregation of cases over a particular period especially cancer and birth defects closely grouped in time and space regardless of whether the number is more than the expected number.
What is a cluster
500
criteria to draw conclusion of cause and effect
What is Temporality, Consistency, Coherence, Strength of association, biological plausibility, dose/response.
500
What is the number 1 pathogen causing hospitalization, and death?
Salmonella
500
difference between the B and C division
What is do statistical analysis on data for both descriptive and analytical epidemiology?