Posted: February 16th, 2017
Describe how microbes of a normal flora in the human body can become opportunistic pathogens.
Use the information presented in this module along with additional outside research to answer the questions:
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Describe how microbes of a normal flora in the human body can become opportunistic pathogens.
- Describe the three basic approaches used by epidemiologists to study the dynamics of a disease in populations.
- Discuss Koch’s postulates and its limitations.
- Describe the necessary steps a microbe must take before it can cause infection and disease.
- Describe the most common staphylococcal skin infections and its cause.
- Describe the most common streptococcal skin infections and its cause.
- Describe the different types of subcutaneous mycoses.
- Describe the different types of respiratory infections caused by streptococcal species.
- Discuss the reemergence of TB and MDR-TB.
- Describe the most common fungal respiratory infections.