BIOL449 Study Guide - Hospital-Acquired Infection, Enterobacteriaceae, Poliovirus
10 Apr 2014
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Public health microbio lecture 1: introduction: public health is basically what we as a society do to assure conditions of people are healthy in micro. Determine antibiotic sensitivity patterns & emerging drug resistance. Isolate causative agents from food, patient specimens Monitor the drinking, marine, recreational waters for presence of health-threatening o o o o organisms o collaberate with levels of government and agencies. Quality assurance again basically lab quality control and performance o. Monitor emergence, spread & trends of the disease through surveillance studes: brief history: william farr vs john snow, ignaz summelweis. Public health microbio lecture 2: epidemiology: epidemiology: basically factors that influence frequency and distribution of diseases such as psychology, sociology, microbiology, ecology, and statistics. The procedure involved in epidemiology is monitoring --> studying --> control --> containment of infectious disease. The procedure can be done by professionals or institutions and done on various levels of government.
