Course objectives

• Name common microbial pathogens.
• Name the diseases caused by common microbial pathogens.
• Describe presenting symptoms of specific infectious diseases.
• Describe laboratory methods used to diagnose specific infectious diseases.
• Explain therapeutic options for specific infectious diseases.
• Describe vaccines to prevent specific infectious diseases.
• Describe key virulence factors for specific infectious diseases and explain how these virulence factors are important in the pathogenesis and symptoms of specific infectious diseases.
• Describe features of the innate and acquired host response associated with protection from disease (protective immune responses).
• Describe features of the host immune response associated with immunopathogenesis.
• Appreciate epidemiologic features of specific infectious diseases:
• modes of transmission (aerosols, food-borne, parenteral, sexual, zoonotic, iatrogenic, etc...)
• means of blocking transmission (handwashing, body fluid precautions, pasteurization, mosquito control, etc...)