Prerequisites: Pubhlth 370 or Bio 207, AND Pubhlth 311 or Bio 305
Description: Microbial structures and their relation to basic mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis; structure, function, and genetics of bacterial toxins; and host resistance and immunity. Discussions of pathogenic organisms of major public health importance, diseases caused, and their epidemiology.
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the role played by bacteria in human health and disease.
2. Understand how genetic transfer mechanisms can lead to bacteria with increased virulence and antibiotic resistance.
3. Understand how bacterial toxins and other virulence factors help bacteria cause disease.
4. Understand public health approaches to preventing bacterial diseases.
5. Understand how antibiotics kill bacteria and how bacteria become resistant to them.
This course is cross-listed with EPID 560 in the Epidemiology, SPH department.
