Human Defenses and Responses to Infectious Disease

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Credits 4. 4 Lecture Hours. Integration of immunology and microbiology to elucidate the mechanisms by which the body responds to a variety of stressors such as infectious organisms and the pathophysiological conditions that may result from these responses; organization and function of the immune system; immunopathological states that result from failure of the immune system such as immunodeficiency, hypersensitivity and autoimmune diseases and challenges that normal immune reactions can pose in modern medicine such as blood transfusion reactions and graft rejection; core concepts underlying organisms of infectious disease, disease vectors, modes of transmission, mechanisms of pathogenesis and pharmacologic principles of treatment; clinical evaluation, diagnostic testing and laboratory methodology for the identification and classification of microorganisms; characteristics of the patient and infectious organisms that influence therapeutic protocols; strategies for the management of resistance and infection control.