JoinCase Study: Sick on a South American Sugarcane Plantation
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue describes an interrupted case study designed for use in an undergraduate microbiology course over two to four class periods. It familiarizes students with a relatively common disease while illustrating an uncommon route of transmission, as well as the lesser known risk the disease poses to citizens of nonendemic areas such as the United States.