Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- Host-pathogen relationship, Overview of pathogenesis of viral
diseases, Overview of bacterial pathogenesis.
- Discussion of Virulence Factors and toxins: Virulence factors,
Exotoxins, Enterotoxins, Endotoxins.
- Host Factors in infection: Host risk factors for infection, Innate
resistance to infection.
- Microbial mechanisms for escaping host defenses.
- Epidemiological terminology. Measuring frequency: the epidemiologist's
tools.
- Recognition of an infectious disease in a population, Recognition of
an epidemic.
- The infectious disease cycle. Cause, Source, Transmission,
Susceptibility of the host, Excretion
- Epidemiology, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment of important human
diseases– Airborne transmission of Diseases-Tuberculosis, leprosy,
Diphtheria, Colds and Influenza; Soilborne diseases-Tetanus;
Waterborne diseases- Typhoid, cholera; Arthropod transmitted
disease-Malaria; Animal transmitted diseases- Rabies Sexually
transmitted diseases- AIDS
- Role of models in Epidemiology; Single species population growth
models in discrete and continuous time; Two species interaction
models; Epidemiological Rates and Risks; Models of Infectious and
vector borne diseases; Models of parasite dynamics; Models of vaccine
effects. Using open source equivalent of software like Stella which
allow you to construct and analyse basic models using available data.
- J. Willey, L. Sherwood and C. Woolverton, Prescott's Principles
of Microbiology, 1st Edn., McGraw-Hill Science (2008).
- J. G. Black, Microbiology: Principles And Explorations, 7th
Edn., John Wiley and Sons Inc. (2008).
- F. Bauer and C. Castillo-Chavez, Mathematical Models in
Population Biology and Epidemiology, 1st Edn., Springer (2001).
