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Contents
- Introduction
- 1.1 What are infectious diseases?
- 1.2 Symptoms and signs of infection
- 1.3 Acute or chronic conditions
- 1.4 What causes infectious diseases?
- 1.5 Direct person-to-person transmission of pathogens
- 1.6 Indirect person-to-person transmission of pathogens
- 1.7 Animal-to-human transmission of pathogens
- 1.8 The end of infectious diseases?
- 1.9 Emerging infectious diseases
- Session 1 quiz
- Summary to Session 1
- Introduction
- 2.1 Origins of the scientific method
- 2.2 Infant deaths in 19th-century England
- 2.3 Waterborne infection in 19th-century England
- 2.4 John Snow, cholera and the Broad Street pump
- 2.5 John Snow’s experiment
- 2.6 Edward Jenner, smallpox and vaccination
- 2.7 Edward Jenner’s experiment
- 2.8 Edward Jenner and the scientific method
- 2.9 The eradication of smallpox
- Session 2 quiz
- Summary to Section 2
- Introduction
- 3.1 How many pathogens cause human disease?
- 3.2 Cells and their relationship to pathogens
- 3.3 Organisms and their scientific names
- 3.4 Introducing parasites and protists
- 3.5 Ectoparasites and endoparasites
- 3.6 Malaria and other protist diseases
- 3.7 Fungal pathogens
- 3.8 Bacterial pathogens
- 3.9 Viral pathogens
- 3.10 Prions
- Session 3 quiz
- Summary to Session 3
- Introduction
- 4.1 Natural barriers against pathogens
- 4.2 The immune response to infection
- 4.3 Leukocytes: the cells of the immune system
- 4.4 Innate immunity
- 4.5 Adaptive immunity
- 4.6 Counting leukocytes in blood samples
- 4.7 Chickenpox: adaptive immunity in action
- 4.8 Antigens and the specific recognition of pathogens
- 4.9 Antibodies and B cells
- 4.10 T cells in adaptive immunity
- 4.11 Vaccination
- 4.12 Opposition to vaccination
- Session 4 quiz
- Summary to Session 4
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
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