Bacillus anthracis, causal agent of anthrax, on blood agar takes on a characteristic "ground-glass" appearanceEnteropathogenic E.coli induces the formation of pedestals on the host cell surfaceOpisthotonus by Sir Charles Bell, 1809. Opisthotonus occurs in untreated tetanus patients.

 

 

BIOL 464: Bacterial Pathogenesis (Lecture syllabus  - subject to change)

 

Lecture /Date

Topics to be covered

References

Reading for next week

Handouts

BACTERIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH ANIMALS

Lecture 1

Mon 8/24

Course outline. What are pathogens? Introduction to important terms

Chapter 1, Ancient history takes a toll on today’s human health

Chapter 1, Concepts of disease; use Brock’s Chapter glossary’s to find assigned definitions

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Wed 8/26

Why study infectious disease? A historical perspective, the situation today

Chapter 1

Chapter 2; do the quiz on University of Leicester Micro website

Lecture 2

Fri 8/28

Final Day to Drop and Receive 100% refund

Lecture 3

Mon 8/31

Approaching and studying infectious disease

Chapter 2

Chapter 3; brush up on your molecular biology you’ll need this next week!

Lecture 3

Koch article

Lecture 4

Mon 9/2

Molecular approaches to the diagnosis of bacterial infections

 

Chapter 3 - make sure you understand the techniques discussed. Office hours can be used if necessary.

Chapter 3

Lecture 4

Antivirulence genes

Mon 9/7

LABOR DAY RECESS

Lecture 5

Wed 9/9

 

Molecular approaches continued

Chapter 3 - make sure you understand the techniques discussed. Office hours can be used if necessary.

Chapter 21 of Brock: Bacterial interactions with humans

Lecture 5

Check out the microarray animation

Lecture 6

Mon 9/14

A survey of our normal flora: its role in protecting us against infectious disease

Brock, Chapter 21; Todar’s online book of Bacteriology Chapter “The Bacterial Flora of Humans”

Chapter 4

Lecture 6

 

Link to NPR article

Lecture 7

Wed 9/16

First line of Defense

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Lecture 7

Lecture 8

Mon 9/21

First line of Defense continued

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Lecture 8 Important: Class Information!

Lecture 9

Wed 9/23

Second line of defense: Introduction to the adaptive immune system: Immunoglobulins

Chapter 6

Review material for exam

Lecture 9

Example exam question

Mon 9/28

Exam I – Lecture 1-9
 
PRINCIPLES OF BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS

Lecture 10

Wed 9/30

Adaptive immunity continued: T cells, B cell mucosal immunity

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Lecture 10

Fri 10/2

Final Day to Drop and Receive 50% refund

SoLS Seminar: Dr. Erin Murphy Shigella virulence gene expression

Lecture 11

Mon 10/5

Vaccination

Chapter 7

Todar

Lecture 11

Lecture 12

Wed 10/7

Bacterial structure in relationship to pathogenicity

Todar

Chapter 8

Lecture 12

Lecture 13

Mon 10/12

Bacterial strategies of evading and surviving the defense systems of the human body; capsules; LPS; proteases, resistance to NO

Chapter 8 (last part of chapter)

Chapter 8 (first part)

Lecture 13

Lecture 14

Wed 10/14

Colonization and Invasion.

Pili, adhesins, resisiting anti bacterial peptides; iron acquisition; invasion and intracellular life

Todar; Chapter 8 (first part)

There are suitable reviews so here is a summary of what we will discuss Secretion Handout

Lecture 14

Lecture 15

Mon 10/19

Bacterial Secretion Systems used in pathogenesis

Secretion Handout & Appendix 1 of Salyers & Whitt

Chapter 9; Todar

Lecture 15

 

Lecture 16

Wed 10/21

 

Bacterial Secretion Systems used in pathogenesis  (cont)

Secretion Handout & Appendix 1 of Salyers & Whitt

Chapter 9; Todar

Lecture 16

Lecture 17

Mon 10/26

GUEST LECTURE Bacterial exotoxins and endotoxin:

Chapter 9; Todar

Chapter 10

Lecture 17

Wed 10/28

Exam II – Lecture 10-16

Fri 10/30

Nevada Day Recess

BACTERIAL PATHOGENS AND DISEASES IN HUMANS

Mon 11/02

Final Day to Drop

Lecture 18

Mon 11/02

Antimicrobial compounds

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Lecture 18

Lecture 19

Wed 11/04

How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics

Chapter 11

Chapter 19

Lecture 19

Fri 11/06

SoLS Seminar: Dr. George Munson,  Pathogenesis of Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC)

Lecture 20

Mon 11/9

How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics

Chapter 11

Chapter 19

Lecture 20

11/11

VETERANS DAY RECESS

Lecture 21

Wed 11/16

Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Chapter 19
Chapter 28; Todar
Lecture 21

Lecture 22

Mon 11/18

Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli
Chapter 28; Todar
Chapter 26; Todar
Lecture 22

Lecture 23

Wed 11/23

Diarrheagenic E. coli &  Shigella spp.
Chapter 28; Todar chapters
Chapter 23
Lecture 23

Lecture 24

Mon 11/25

Helicobacter pylori

Peptic ulcers/Duodenal ulcers and gastric cancer

Chapter 23
Chapter 14; Todar

Lecture 24

11/26-27

THANKSGIVING RECESS

Lecture 25

Wed 11/30

Staphylococcal disease

Chapter 14; Todar

Chapter 15 & 18; Todar

Lecture 25

Lecture 26

Mon 12/2

Staphylococcal disease (cont) & Neisseria meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae

Lecture 26

Mon 12/7

6pm-8pm FINAL EXAMINATION