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Salmonella in the Caribbean A Classroom Case Study INSTRUCTOR’S VERSION Original investigators: Lisa Indar-Harrinauth,1, 2 Nicholas Daniels,3 Parimi Prabbakar,1 Clive Brown,1 Gail Baccus-Taylor,2 Edward Commissiong,2 H. Reid,4 and James Hospedales1 1Caribbean Epidemiology Centre, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization 2Food Technology Unit, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of the West Indies 3Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 4Trinidad Public Health Laboratory, Trinidad Case study and instructor’s guide created by: Jeanette K. Stehr-Green, MD Reviewed by: Frederick J. Angulo, DVM, PhD, Stephanie M. DeLong, MPH, Lisa Indar-Harrinauth, PhD, MSc, James Hospedales, MBBS, MSc, MFPHM, Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH, James Flint, MPH, Roderick C. Jones, MPH, Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH NOTE: This case study is based on real-life investigations undertaken in Trinidad and Tobago in 1998-1999 and published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and the West Indian Medical Journal. (See Appendix for abstracts.) Some aspects of these investigations (and the circumstances leading up to them) have been altered to assist in meeting the desired teaching objectives and some details have been fabricated to provide continuity to the storyline. Target audience: public health practitioners with knowledge of basic epidemiologic concepts, especially non-epidemiologists (e.g., laboratorians, environmental health specialists, sanitarians, public health nurses, veterinarians, MPH students) Level of case study: basic Teaching materials required: graph paper, calculator Time required: 3-4 hours Language: English Training materials funded by: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (National Center for Infectious Diseases, Food Safety Initiative, Public Health Practice Program Office, and Epidemiology Pro