Molecular Pathogenesis
Credit Hour(s): 3 Units
Instructor(s): TBD
Offered: TBD
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing
Additional Information: Cross-listed in IGBP (7240)
Lecture Topics:
- Introduction to pathogenesis: experimental approaches, cell wall and membrane structures, membrane biogenesis, secretion mechanisms, flagella, pili, curli
- Regulation of virulence
- Colonization and host tissue damage; intracellular lifestyles
- Innate immunity, antimicrobial peptides, pattern recognition
- Model bacterial pathogens
- Pathogenic fungi
- Viral pathogens and HIV
- Parasites