Question

what type of epidemiological study would most likely be done for a Pseudomonas outbreak in a hospital? Explain.

Answer 1

The infections which are acquired from a hospital or a healthcare unit, such as Pseudomonas are called nosocomial infections. Such infections are very dangerous in nature provided the fact the the hospitals themselves are kept highly sanitized and even after high degree of sanitization, the infection persists. Thus, this suggests that this infectious agent is highly resistant to multiple antibiotics and drugs and hence its eradiation is particularly difficult in nature. Thus, it remains necessary to understand its molecular profile and nature so that the appropriate eradication methods could be chosen.

In order to accomplish this, molecular epidemiological studies are generally done to understand the behavior of such pathogens on large scale.