This course addresses several major topics, including principles of disease induction and transmission, host response to threat and injury, pathogenetic mechanisms of infectious and toxic agents, and manipulation of disturbances in health. The interaction among host, environmental, and etiologic factors in the development of disease will be highlighted. Students will learn to recognize, describe, and evaluate disturbances of health and homeostasis at the level of the population, individual animal, organ system, tissue and cell using a variety of diagnostic modalities.
This course addresses several major topics, including principles of disease induction and transmission, host response to threat and injury, pathogenetic mechanisms of infectious and toxic agents, and manipulation of disturbances in health. The interaction among host, environmental, and etiologic factors in the development of disease will be highlighted. Students will learn to recognize, describe, and evaluate disturbances of health and homeostasis at the level of the population, individual animal, organ system, tissue and cell using a variety of diagnostic modalities.
