Overview
Please answer the following question in at least a one-page essay.
Your reputation as a budding microbiologist has garnered international acclaim. Because of your reputation at solving complex microbial pathogenesis problems, you are contacted by the CEO of "Big Pork Industries" to address an important disease in pigs, termed Porcine Respiratory Disease (PRD). This respiratory disease in pigs is highly contagious and is resulting in significant economic losses to pig producers as a whole. You are tasked with describing how you would:
1) identify the causative agent of the disease and establish causation.
2) identify the major virulence factor of the organism (please describe a research method discussed in chapter 9 that will help you identify which microbial factors are most important in disease).
3) how will you go about intervening to prevent future infections and 4) what step in disease pathogenesis will your proposed intervention target?