PATHOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

PREREQUISITE: BIOL2025, BIOL1015, BIOL2025L, BIOL1015L This course is an examination of how microbial infections cause damage, symptoms and disease in the human body. We will focus on the impact of pathogenic microbes and microbial products on various human body cells, tissues, organs and systems. The course expands on basic principles of pathogenesis introduced in the prerequisite microbiology course and will relate those principles to human pathophysiology.