Pathology 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Trichomonas, Adrenal Gland, Normal Route
21 Mar 2018
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Infectious diseases may be: minor nuisance (common cold, dramatically affect our history/society, small pox - nearly wiped out a population, black death (plague) Increased incidence of antimicrobial resistance: re-emergence of disease causing organisms, organisms from new parts of the world (west nile, ebola outbreaks. New pathogens in the last 30 years: ebola, hanta, e. coli o157, hiv, hep c. Objectives: concept of infectious disease, examples of some infectious disease, not quizzed on anything before this. Allows us to: diagnose, treatment -- want to specifically target the specific infectious organism - do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to kill all, epidemiology: source, transmission, prevention. Sars coronavirus: development of a test to detect the agent and allow confirmation of cases, clinical and epidemiologic factors, development of treatment, determine means of spread for prevention and public health intervention, vaccine, they fulfilled kochs postulates. Of kochs postulates (will exam on kochs not saars)
