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2- Bacterial Pathogens I
Define a pathogen,
Define pathogenicity,
Define virulence
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2- C. difficile infection
Describe the microbiology of the ...,
List the three risk factors for d...,
How do antibiotics contribute to ...
14
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2- Verocytotoxin/ Shiga E. coli disease
What is the most common strain of...,
How is e coli o157 h7 identified ...,
What are the main routes of trans...
15
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3- Bacterial Pathogens II
What is an endotoxin,
What is the structure of lipopoly...,
Describe the lipid a component of...
30
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4- Viral Pathogens I (HIV)
What are the three types of infec...,
Define a virus,
What is a bacteria
70
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5- Viral Pathogens II (HIV)
What are the stages of a typical ...,
Describe the typical course of a ...,
What is immunodeficiency
23
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6/7 - Parasitology and the Pathogenesis of Parasitic infections
What is a parasite,
What are the three main classes o...,
What are protozoa
20
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6/7 - Parasitic Infections: Examples
to finish!!!
46
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8- Mechanisms of Viral Infection and Pathogenesis
Name the three patterns of viral ...,
Describe the pattern of acute inf...,
Example of an acute infection
34
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9- Diagnosis of Viral Infections (electron microscopy)
Q why isn t it always possible to...,
Q rapid diagnosis of viral infect...,
What are the implications on publ...
17
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9- Diagnosis of Viral Infections (Antigen Detection)
What is antigen detection in the ...,
List the ideal types of patients ...,
What are the advantages of antige...
10
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10- System for Detecting Pathogens I
What is a pathogen,
What is a commensal non pathogen,
What is a zoonotic non pathogen
36
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11- Systems of Pathogen Detection II
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12- Mechanisms for Antivirals
Need for antiviral drugs,
Current use of antivirals,
How is selective toxicity ensured...
39
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13- Antibiotics
What is an antimicrobial,
What is an antibiotic,
Describe the production of antibi...
72
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14- Antibiotic Resistance
What is amr antimicrobial resistance,
Concerns with amr,
List mechanisms for antibiotic re...
22
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15- Molecular & Genomic Epidemiology of Infections
What is molecular epidemiology wh...,
What are the three key aspects of...,
What is epidemiological surveilla...
7
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16- Innate Immune System
Lo importance of innate immunity ...,
Lo general principles of pathogen...,
Lo importance of innate immunity ...
32
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22 - Hypersensitive Reactions
What are the 4 types of hypersens...,
What is a hypersensitivity reaction,
Examples of type 1 hypersensitivity
58
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23- Antibacterial Responses
Pathogenic mechanism of s aureus,
Pathogenic mechanism of v cholerae,
Pathogenic mechanism of m tubercu...
29
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24- Microbial Immune Evasion Mechanisms
What is virulence,
What are virulence factors,
What are adhesins
54
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25- Natural Born Killers: NK cells (and CD8+ T cells)
What is the role of cytotoxic lym...,
What are cd8 t cells part of how ...,
What are nk cells part of how do ...
43
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26- Anti-Tumour Immunity and Immunotherapy for Cancer
Characteristics of cancer cells,
Relationship between the immune s...,
What is immunosurveillance immuno...
41
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27- Transplantation and Immunosuppressive Drugs
What is transplantation,
What is autologous transplantation,
What is syngeneic transplantation
37
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28 - Immunodeficiency
What is immunodeficiency,
List the two,
Describe the classifications of i...
46
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29- Autoimmunity
What is autoimmunity,
What is immune tolerance,
What are the two types of tolerance
53
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30- Scientific Basis of Vaccines
What is a vaccine,
What make a good vaccine consider...,
What are the three main reasons f...
28
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31- Vaccines: Bacterial & Viral
List the different vaccines inclu...,
What type of vaccine is the 6 in ...,
What type of vaccine is the mmr v...
50
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32- Immunology in the Clinic and Research Lab
What is an immunoassay,
List the different types of immun...,
What enzymes are used for elisa
42
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PAS - Data Analysis
What is a t test,
Statistically significant p value,
When the p value is greater than ...
44
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PAS - Clinical Trials
Importance of a control group,
Importance of a placebo control g...,
Importance of random allocation f...
14
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PAS - Sample Estimates & Confidence Intervals
What is a confidence interval,
Potential biases that can arise f...,
How does a smaller sample size af...
13
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PAS - Research (Qualitative & Quantitative)
What is research,
Why do people carry out research,
Quantitative research
9
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PAS - Observational Epidemiology Studies
Outcome define,
Exposure factors define,
Risk factor define
23
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PAS - Clinical Research
Aims of clinical research,
Pre clinical research,
Clinical and healthcare research
20
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PAS - Clinical Trial Phases
List phases of clinical trials 5,
Preclinical phase of testing,
Phase 1 of testing aims inclusion...
11
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PAS - Ethical Dilemmas
Four principles ethics approach e...,
Three ethical theories for resear...
2
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