Microbiology: A Systems Approach 4th Edition by Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Exercise 13

Critical thinking is the ability to reason and solve problems using facts and concepts. These questions can be approached from a number of angles and, in most cases, they do not have a single correct answer.
One hundred individuals present to a health care clinic complaining of gastrointestinal distress. As the head triage physician, please detail all steps you will take to definitively determine what disease the patients are suffering from and to identify the source of the apparent outbreak.