What type of laboratory test(s) would NOT be conducted if you suspect a patient has contracted plague
Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry would not be conducted. The first thing that would happen if plague is suspected is immediate isolation. Contact with an infected patient needs to be minimized and the hospital needs to be equipped to handle that patient.
What type of laboratory test(s) would NOT be conducted if you suspect a patient has contracted plague
Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry would not be conducted. The first thing that would happen if plague is suspected is immediate isolation. Contact with an infected patient needs to be minimized and the hospital needs to be equipped to handle that patient.
When the plague happened there were no labs or testing. They didn't know or understand the transmission of disease or anything about virus and disease.
If you suspect a patient has contracted plague, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) would not typically be conducted, as it is not a standard test for diagnosing infectious diseases like plague. Instead, more relevant tests would include culture for Yersinia pestis, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for genetic material, and Gram or Wright's staining to identify bacterial presence. GC-MS is primarily used for analyzing chemical compounds and is not suited for detecting bacterial infections.
If a patient is suspected of having contracted plague, tests specific to the causative agent, Yersinia pestis, would be prioritized, such as blood cultures or sputum cultures for bacterial identification. Routine laboratory tests, like standard viral panels or tests for unrelated bacterial infections, would not be appropriate or necessary in this case. Additionally, tests that do not provide relevant information for diagnosing or managing plague, such as allergy tests, would likely be omitted.
With contagious infections, it is impossible to trace to "Patient Zero", the very first patient to get the infection.
The bubonic plague.
The poisoning of French Troops that had contracted Bubonic Plague in Egypt was evil.
Bubonic. CBRNE-December 2011
by seeing how a bird reacted to the patient.
Australia has had the bubonic plague. The bubonic plague first hit Australia in January 1900 and continued through to July, when a major cleansing operation was conducted in Sydney. However, ships coming from overseas continued to cause more outbreaks of the plague in Australia right through to 1925. During this time, there were 1371 cases of plague reported, and 535 deaths.