- Enteric Outbreak Toolkit
- Background
- Analytic studies
- Case definitions
- Case finding
- Case interviewing
- Communication and coordination
- Data management
- Descriptive epidemiology
- Epidemiological summaries
- Epidemic curves
- Hypothesis generation
- Laboratory methods and surveillance
- Line lists
- Outbreak identification
- Post-outbreak
- Prevention and control
- Public health partners
- Questionnaire design
- Weight of evidence
- Outbreak investigation
- Tools
- Tools by author
- Acronyms
- Public health conferences
- Questionnaire repository
- Accessible Cyclosporiasis Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
- Accessible E. coli Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
- Hepatitis A Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
- Invasive Listeriosis Questionnaire
- Salmonella Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
- Campylobacter Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
- Shigella Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
- PHAC’s Open Ended Interviewing Guidelines
- Pet food and treats questionnaire
- PHAC Travel-acquired enteric illness questionnaire
- Sources of public health intelligence
- Documents
- Epidemiological Assessments Guide
- Case definitions example table
- Public health alert template
- Interpretation criteria for WGS data
- Epidemiological Assessment Template
- Epidemiological assessment – Example 1
- Epidemiological assessment – Example 2
- Example: Case finding following a wedding banquet
- Assessment call template
- Teleconference call template
- Interview Script Examples
- Outbreak debrief template
- Salmonella and reptiles
- Binomial probability calculation tool for food exposures
- Line list and data dictionary
- Pivot Tables and epidemic curve exercise
- Chronology template
- Module 4: visual chronology template
- Final epi summary template
- Proposal for declaring the outbreak over template
- Case Study
- Module 2: Hypothesis Generation
- Food safety investigations
- Case definitions
- Case finding
- Hypothesis Generating
- Hypothesis generating questionnaires
- Module 2 epi summary
- Module 2 Line list
- Public Health Alert
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2: Food frequency analysis in Excel
- Interpretation of hypothesis generation results
- Exercise 3: Updated epi summary
- Module 2 conclusion
- Module 1: Cluster detection and initial investigation
- Module 3: Weight of evidence
- Module 4: concluding the investigation
- Documenting the outbreak: final investigation summary
- Outbreak debriefs
- Knowledge translation
- Module 4 line list
- Module 4 conclusion
- Documenting the outbreak: Outbreak Summaries
- Documenting the outbreak: chronologies
- Closing the investigation: OICC deactivation
- Declaring the outbreak over
- Exercise 5: declaring the outbreak over
- OICC call #5
- Module 4: visual chronology
- Case Study Conclusion
- Module 2: Hypothesis Generation
- Site Map
- About Us
- Enteric Outbreak Seminar Series
- A New Suspect: Listeria monocytogenes Outbreak Investigation Linked to Plant-Based Beverages
- Archive
- COVID19 Impacts on Enteric Pathogens in Canada
- Local, Provincial, and Federal responses to aconitine poisonings associated with galanga (sand ginger) powder in Ontario 2022
- Pearls of wisdom: Canadian shellfish outbreak investigations from the provincial and federal perspectives
- A multi-strain outbreak of Salmonella serovars associated with cantaloupe: The story of one of Canada’s most severe Salmonella outbreaks
- Foodbook 2.0: A Canadian food consumption study
- Mini pastries, major mystery: How the 2025 Salmonella outbreak linked to pastries was solved
- Foodborne Illness Outbreak Response Series
- Pets and Pathogens: Investigations of Enteric Illness Outbreaks Associated with Pets and Their Food
- Foodborne Illness Outbreak Response in Canada: From Detection to Action