Description
Prerequisite: BIO 181; BIO 205
Medical aspects of host-parasite relationships in bacterial, mycotic, rickettsial, and viral diseases of human. This course will cover the challenge presented by various groups of infectious microorganisms. Serves as a guide to the complex subject of infectious disease; constructs on fundamental biological principles to examine different agents of disease. Including the modes of transmission, interaction of pathogens with the host immune system, and the ecological factors facilitating or inhibiting the emergence of epidemic disease, their prognosis, diagnosis and treatment. A wide variety of diagnostic techniques including culturing, staining, ELISA, Immunochromatography, PCR/RT-PCR, Immuno-electrophoresis, and Western blotting will be taught in laboratories.