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Course Detail
Description: This course provides information on emerging and other prevalent infectious diseases in the world today. Operating from the host/agent/environmental triangle base, students learn to recognize common risk factors for select infectious diseases. The class tours the JHH Microbiology Laboratory to observe collection and processing techniques that can affect the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The course focuses on prevention and control methods, but basic disease management information is included as well. The faculty facilitates discussion on the improper use of antibiotics and the resulting multi-drug resistant agents that contribute to increasing infections and affect societal and economic trends. Disease topics are presented as prototypes of viral, retroviral, bacterial, riskettsial, zoonotic, and parasitic infections.
Prerequisite: NR 110.313
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