Infection Immunity

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will combine topics in microbial pathogenesis, pathogen life cycles, modes of disease transmission, interventions (vaccines & therapeutics) and immunology. Students will become facile with mechanisms used by bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic pathogens to replicate in hosts, transmit between hosts and to produce disease states in them. Students will also learn about basic immune mechanisms involved in fighting infections, contributing to disease states and important for development of vaccines.