Date

Lecture (links to class notes)

Reading/Assignments (ref. #)

Aug 22

Introduction

Introduction. Case Studies

Aug 29

Microbes & Infectious Disease

Concept map 1.pdf
Pathogenicity (12)
Project guidelines
Case Studies due

Sept 5

Koch's Postulates

Historical perspective.pdf (10)
Koch's Postulates

Sept 12

Handwashing lab
Sample data

Handwashing (1)
Handwashing lab protocol.pdf (7)

Sept 19

Impact of Infectious Disease on Human History

Typhoid Mary
Handwashing lab report due

Sept 26

Epidemiology

Concept map 2.pdf
Snow (6)
Nightingale.pdf (4)
Semmelweis.pdf (3)

Oct 3

Epidemiology lab
Add your data | Class data

Epidemiology lab protocol.pdf (7)

Oct 17

Vector borne diseases

worksheet for class.pdf

Tickborne disease case study
Aedes albopictus
Vector assignment.pdf
Epidemiology lab report due

Oct 24

Case-control studies

Hotel Guests Get Dermatitis.pdf (11)
Sample case study 1
Sample case study 2
Vector borne disease assignment due

Oct 31

Control & Prevention

Montagu-Jenner.pdf (2)
The Problem.pdf
Malaria

Nov 7

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Concept map 3. pdf
EID.pdf (9)
Influenza (13)
EIDs.pdf
Malaria assignment due

Nov 14

Sociopolitical issues
Public Health

Immigration Law
Polio.pdf (8)
Bioweapons.pdf (11)
Health and Human Society.pdf (5)

Nov 21

Molecular epidemiology

Case 1-Diagnosis
Case 2-Finding the Source
Project due

Dec 5

Molecular epidemiology lab

Molecular epidemiology lab protocol.pdf

Molecular epidemiology lab due

References

Case, C. L. "Handwashing." Access Excellence. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/hand_background.html.
Case, C. L. and K-T. Chung. "Montagu and Jenner: The Campaign Against Smallpox." SIM News 47(2):58-60, 1997.
Chung, K-T. and C. L. Case. "Semmelweis: A Lesson in Epidemiology." SIM News 47(5):234-237, 1997.
Cohen, I, B. "Florence Nightingale." Scientific American 250(30:128-137, March 1984.
Hertzman, C. "Health and Human Society." American Scientist, Nov-Dec. 2001.
"John Snow. "UCLA Department of Epidemiology. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html.
Johnson, T. and C. L. Case. Laboratory Experiments in Microbiology, 7th ed. San Francisco CA: Benjamin Cummings, 2004. #1 | #2
Kluger, J. "Polio's Back. Why Now?" Time Magazine. May 9, 2005.
Morse, S. S. "Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases." Emerging Infectious Diseases 1(1):7-15, 1995.
Satcher, D. "Emerging Infections." Emerging Infectious Diseases 1(1):1-6, 1995.
Tortora, G., Funke, B., and Case, C. L. Microbiology: An Introduction, 8th ed. San Francisco CA: Benjamin Cummings, 2004.
Tortora, G., Funke, B., and Case, C. L. Microbiology: An Introduction, 9th ed. San Francisco CA: Benjamin Cummings, 2007.#1| #2
Webster, R. G. and E. J. Walker. "Influenza." American Scientist, March-April 2003.