Steps in an Outbreak Investigation

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• Alternative Title:
  Multistate and nationwide foodborne outbreak Investigations : a step-by-step guide ; Steps in investigating foodborne outbreaks
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
• Description:
  A foodborne outbreak investigation goes through several steps. They are described here in order, but in reality investigations are dynamic and several steps may happen at the same time.
  
  • Detect a possible outbreak
  
  • Find cases in an outbreak
  
  • Generate hypotheses through interviews
  
  • Test hypotheses through analytic studies and laboratory testing
  
  • Solve point of contamination and original source of outbreak vehicle
  
  • Control outbreak through recalls, facility improvements and industry collaboration
  
  • Decide an Outbreak is over
  
  Called also: Multistate and nationwide foodborne outbreak Investigations : a step-by-step guide; and: Steps in investigating foodborne outbreaks.
  
  CS257778
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  steps-in-oubreak-investigation-508c.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Notification Disease Outbreaks Foodborne Diseases/epidemiology Public Health Surveillance
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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