Mic 361
Human Infectious Diseases

Dr. Leanne Field

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Lecture

Date

Topic

Reading Assignment

       
1 W 1/20 Introduction to the Study of Infectious Diseases Chapters 1,3, 4, 31
2 F 1/22 Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Chapter 54
3 M 1/25 Attachment and Entry of Microbes into the Host; The Host's Nonspecific (Constituitive) Defenses of the Skin and Mucous Membranes (including the Normal Microbial Flora) Chapters 1 and 2
pp. 519-521, 557-559,
564-566, 573-576.
4 W 1/27 Adherence of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens Chapter 3
5 F 1/29 Events Occurring Immediately after Adherence:Viral Infections of the Epithelial Cell Surface
6 M 2/1 Events Occurring Immediately After Adherence: Systemic Spread of Viruses Throughout the Body
7 W 2/3 Events Occurring Immediately After Adherence: Patterns of Bacterial Pathogenesis and the Host Defense of Phagocytosis Chapters 6, 8
8 F 2/5 Nonspecific (Constitutive) Defenses of Tissue and Blood: Inflammation and Complement Chapter 6
9 M 2/8 Specific (Induced) Defenses of the Host: How The Immune System Fights Infectious Diseases Chapter 7
10 W 2/10 Microbial Strategies to Thwart the Nonspecific and Specific Defenses of the Host Chapter 8
11 F 2/12
Pathologic Consequences of Infection: Mechanisms of Cell and Tissue Damage (Disease Production by Viruses) Chapter 9
  M 2/15 EXAM 1 ( GEO 100 5:30-7:30 pm ) NO REGULAR CLASS MEETING  
12 W 2/17 Pathologic Consequences of Infection: Mechanisms of Cell and Tissue Damage (Exotoxins, Endotoxins, Immunopathology) Chapter 7, pp. 101-104; Chapters 9 and 63
13 F 2/19  Introduction to Respiratory Pathogens Chapters 59, and other pages in the lecture outline.
14 M 2/22 Corynebacterium diphtheriae Chapter 44, p. 416.
15 W 2/24 Bordetella pertussis Chapter 19, p. 417.
16 17 F 2/26 Primer on Pneumonia pp. 553-563.
17 M 3/1 S. pneumoniae (Pneumococcal Pneumonia)
*** Legionella pneumophila***
Chapter 13
Chapter 21
18 W 3/3 Mycobacterium tuberculosis Chapter 23
19 F 3/5 Speaker
20 M 3/8 Orthomyxoviruses: Influenza Viruses
***Paramyxoviruses***
Chapter 36
Chapter 34
21 W 3/10 Introduction to Infections of the Central Nervous System: Neisseria meningitidis Chapters 58, 14
22 F 3/12 Hemophilus influenzae
3/15- 3/19 SPRING BREAK
23 M 3/22 Introduction to Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: Streptococci Chapters 12, 61
24 W 3/24 Streptococci/ Staphylococci Chapters 11, 62
F 3/26  EXAM 2 (WEL 3.502 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.) NO REGULAR CLASS MEETING
25 M 3/29 Staphylococci Chapter 11
26 W 3/31 Herpesviruses Chapters 41
27 F 4/2 Clostridia Chapter 20
28 M 4/5 Introduction to Gastrointestinal Tract Infections/Helicobacter pylori Chapters 57,22
29 W 4/7 Enteric Pathogens Chapters 16, 37
30 F 4/9 Enteric Pathogens Chapter 17
31 M 4/12 Foodborne
****Waterborne Diseases***
Chapter 73
32 W 4/14 Overview of Bloodborne Infections/ Hepatitis Viruses Chapter 42
33 F 4/16 Hepatitis Viruses  
34 M 4/19 Introduction to Sexually Transmitted Diseases/ Neisseria gonorrhoeae Chapters 66, 14, p. 278.
35 W 4/21 Treponema pallidum Chapter 24
36 F 4/23 Chlamydiae Chapter 27
  M 4/26 EXAM 3 ( WEL 3.502   5:30 – 7:30 PM) NO REGULAR CLASS MEETING  
37 W 4/28 Overview of Urinary Tract Infections Chapter 60
38 F 4/30 Overview of Opportunistic Infections/Pseudomonas aeruginosa Chapters 67, 18
39 M 5/3 Introduction to Zoonotic and Vectorborne Infections/ Hantaviruses/Yersinia pestis/ Bacillus anthracis Chapters 70
40 W 5/5 Speaker  
41 F 5/7 Lyme Disease/ Rickettsioses/Arthropod-borne viruses Chapters 25,28, 33
  W 5/12 FINAL EXAM  7-10 PM  

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