BMSC 8010 - Host-Microbial Interactions in Health & Disease

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: BMSC 7090 or equivalent, or consent from instructor.
Description
The objective of this course is to help students understand the complex relationship between the diverse groups of bacteria that colonize human interfaces with the outside world and explore mechanisms by which pathogenic bacteria can disturb such relationships to cause disease. The contents covered include: techniques to study complex microbiota, host and microbial determinants that maintain health, pathogenic strategies to surmount barriers and disturb equilibrium, why/how such pathogens cause clinical manifestations of disease, and survey of pathogenic processes by pathogens of intestinal and respiratory tracts.