BIOL 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Measles Virus, Hospital-Acquired Infection, Norovirus

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 3070
• Professor: tanyanoel

Document Summary

Disease is a general term and there are many types of diseases, not just. When we talk about the cause of a disease we"re referring to. This can be very general in terms of, you know, infectious versus. 0:21 hereditary, and so on or it can be much more specific. and of course when we"re. 0:26 looking at infectious diseases, the ones caused by microbes, we usually want to. 0:30 know what kind of microbe is causing the infection. 0:34 treatment and possibly in terms of limiting spread of infection. 0:42 to be looking, of course, mostly at infectious diseases, and one thing to. 0:46 keep in mind is that we will be looking at a lot of examples for illustration. You don"t need to know specific ones unless they"re mentioned in the learning. You"ll likely remember koch"s postulates from 237 or 238. 1:02 microbiologist robert koch was instrumental in establishing the link.