Pre-requisite: 62220+62215
The first half of this unit emphasises the diagnoses mechanisms of pathogenesis and prevention of significant microbial diseases of animals and humans. The diseases covered include those caused by readily gram-stained organisms such as gram-positive and gram-negative cocci, gram-positive and gram-negative rods and not readily gram- stained organisms such as non-obligate and obligate intracellular parasites. The second half of the unit will cover basis of antigenic specificity, induction and basis of humoral and cellular immune response, immunoglobulin structure and function, immune system and its role in health and disease, cytokines, cell-mediated immunity and hypersensitivity reactions, autoimmunity, vaccinology, transplantation immunology and cancer immunology.