How does the disease affect people of different races, genders, behaviors, ages, geographical locations?

Infectious Disease Project: During the first week of the course you will pick an infectious disease  research this disease and prepare an infographic or brochure that describes the disease. Power point presentations are not appropriate as  we do not have time for the oral presentations of these projects. Your project must include (but is not […]

Describe what stage the genome sequencing of the organism is at, and what is known about molecular variation in the pathogen and how this in turn relates to virulence characteristics on different hosts etc.

The aim of this coursework is to enable you to apply the knowledge and understanding gained through the module to write a ‘pathogen profile’ for a particular disease. Each student will be provided with the name of a specific pathogen, and must then write a profile of this disease that includes each of the following […]