Infectious Diseases (Elective)

Catalog description

This course provides a detailed examination of emerging and reemerging infectious disease, focusing on significant illnesses found in various regions of the world. Topics include information on the underlying mechanisms of microbial emergence, the technology used to detect them, and the strategies available to contain them. Discussion will involve diseases and their causative agents that are major factors in the health of populations the world over. This course will provide a clear understanding of factors associated with disease emergence and re-emergence can help medical and public health professionals to identify, study, and control new and renewed epidemics and outbreaks. Epidemiological characteristics such as incubation period, infectious period, and means of transmission, the immune response, treatment, prevention and surveillance of these infectious diseases will be evaluated. Up-to-date selections from infectious disease journals as well as information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, MedLine Plus, and the American Society for MicroBIOLogy will be included to insure that topics are kept current.