About The CourseWelcome to the CoursePlus Web site for PRINCIPLES OF BACTERIAL INFECTION (260.622.01), a course offered by the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Introduces major bacterial and rickettsial infections of man, emphasizing their transmission, pathogenesis, and control. Considers bacterial virulence and host resistance; dysentery, typhoid fever, and cholera; syphilis and gonorrhea; Lyme disease; pneumococcal, staphylo coccal, and streptococcal infections; typhus; Rocky Mountain spotted fever; plague, anthrax, brucellosis, and tularemia; tuberculosis; leprosy; infections with anaerobic bacteria; mycoplasma infections; and Legionnaires' disease.
