Typing

Main competency to be acquired

Identify situations where specific typing methods should be used.

Specific learning objectives

• identify the situations in which typing is relevant, including:
• confirmation of an outbreak when epidemiological methods lack sensitivity;
• identification the cause of disease (environmental reservoir);
• description of the phylogeny of pathogen.
• identify typing methods adapted to the situation.

Teaching material

• Lecture 1 - Sequencing and phylogeny
  ppt, 271kb
  Duration: approx 20 minutes
• Lecture 2 - Typing
  ppt, 820kb
  Duration: approx 45 minutes
• Case study 3 (session 2/3) - Salmonella in the Caribbean
  doc, 647kb
  Duration: approx 3 hours