PBS 3.1.1-3.1.6

3.1.1

-Nosocomial Infection

-epidemiologist role

-Types of outbreaks: sporadic, endemic,epidemic, pandemic

3.1.2

-Terminology: host, pathogen, disease, infection

-BASICS on six types of infectious agents: bacteria, viruses, helminths, prions, fungi, protists (focus will be on BACTERIA from later sections)

3.1.3

-Chain of Infection (be able to interpret off of a diagram provided)

-innate vs. acquired immunity

-antigen

-antibody

-T-cell vs. B-cell

-vaccine

-herd immunity

3.1.4 (no new material, this was an application activity)

3.1.5

-aseptic technique

-isolation technique (streaking on an agar plate)

-AWARENESS of characteristics of bacterial colonies/ morphology (do not memorize)

3.1.6

-shapes of bacteria (cocci, bacillus, spirilla)

-AWARENESS of bacteria cell arrangement (do not memorize)

-parts of a bacterial cell

-how to tell gram negative vs. gram positive in STRUCTURE

-how to tell gram negative vs. gram positive in STAINING (look at the reagents, know what each was used for!)