Infectious Diseases: A thin layer of poop

One of our Infectious Diseases professor this morning: “We virologists see the world as being covered by a thin layer of poop. It’s remarkable that we don’t all have diarrhea all the time.”

The Infectious Diseases block runs concurrently with the Life Cycles block. It covers microbiology (bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa) and goes into pharmacological treatment in greater depth than we received last year in our Disease and Defense block. We also have a fair amount of instruction time in the lab. This week, we're learning how to identify both endemic and pathogenic bacteria commonly found in stool.