Microbial Diseases

Readings

Understanding Microbes in Sickness or Health- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/microbes/PDF/microbesbook.pdf

Websites

Nanobugs- http://www.nanobugs.com/
This website, designed for kids, is cool/cute/creepy but it might give you some basic background on important microbial diseases.

Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course a fully engaged student should be able to

- discuss reservoirs for diseases
- discuss how microbes can enter their hosts
- discuss strategies microbes use to adhere, colonize, and invade their hosts
- discuss ways that microbes evade host defenses
- discuss the production of virulence factors
- discuss the endysymbiotic origin in mitochondria
- define pathogenicity islands
- define PROMISCUOUS and use it in a sentence