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Molecular Pathogenesis
Credit: 3 Units
Instructor: TBD
Offered: TBD
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
