Teaching objectives
1. The student is able to integrate the immunological, microbiological and cellular biological principles to describe the basic mechanism of the routes of entry and exit of the pathogen and the colonization and invasion of the host.
2. The student is able to distinguish the course of infection of the different sites of the body (skin, respiratory tract, digestive tract, genital tract, blood and brain).
3. The student can describe in molecular and cellular detail microbial adaptation to the host, virulence mechanisms and mechanisms of cell and tissue damage leading to acute and chronic infections.
4. After infection of the different sites of the body the pathogen encounters the immune system. The student is able to describe in molecular and cellular detail how an initial immune response is initiated by infection and can reason how this may lead to immunity.
5. The student is able to reproduce why and how certain molecular techniques are used to study infection mechanisms.
6. The student can generally describe the measures to diagnose, prevent and to treat the different types of infections (fungal, viral, bacterial and parasitic).
7. The student is able to reflect on the societal impact of knowledge on infectious diseases.
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