Saturday, April 16, 2016

Question from a student 20160416

Question

From: yyyyyyyyy
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 12:41 AM
Subject: 2015R2-FNSC3180 : Food Microbiology: Question about describing the outbreak


Prof Kwan,

I am a student from FNSC 3180. During the review session,you said we should use both deduction and elimination method to describe the outbeark to get the full marks. But I do not quite understand the differences between deduction method and elimination method. Don't they both knock out the pathogens that impossibly cause the outbreak?Could you explain more?  

Thanks a lot!

Answer

I use a very loose way to mention deduction and elimination. What I meant was that most students would just describe the deduction of only one pathogen to be most likely be the implicated pathogen to cause the outbreak, but not writing down the elimination of the other pathogens observed in the outbreak analysis. Answers that include both would be considered complete and would be awarded with higher marks than just describing only the deduction of one putative pathogen.

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