MEDT 380 Clinical Immunology
& Medical Virology

 

 

Lecture Syllabus

Unit 1: Basic Immunology
Nonspecific Immune System
Nonspecific Immune System (continued)
Complement
Vaccines


Unit 2: Antigens and Antibodies
Antigens
Antibodies
Antibodies (continued)

Unit 3: The Immune Response
Cells Involved in the Immune Response
Cytokines & Humoral Immune Response
Humoral Immune Response
Cellular Immune Response

Unit 4: Immunological Disorders & Transplantation Immunology
Hypersensitivy Reactions
Hypersensitivy Reactions (continued)
Immundeficiencies, Autoimmunity, & Immunoproliferative Diseases
Transplantation Immunology

Unit 5: Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
Principles of Antigen-Antibody Reactions & Precipitation Reactions
Agglutination & Labeled Reactions
Complement Fixation & Quantitation of Complement Activation

Unit 6: Introduction to Virology
Characteristics and Replication of Viruses
Diagnosis of Viral Infections Murray
Viral Specimen Collection and Processing
Viral Diseases Murray

Unit 7: DNA Viruses
Herpesviridae
Herpesviridae (continued)
Herpesviridae (continued)
Adenoviridae & Papovaviridae
Poxviridae & Parvoviridae

Unit 8: Hepatitis Viruses
Hepatitis B virus
Hepatitis RNA Viruses
Other Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis Viruses

Unit 9: RNA Viruses
Orthomyxoviridae
Paramyxoviridae
Retroviridae

Picornaviridae & Rhabdoviridae
Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, & Calciviridae
Coronaviridae & Filoviridae
Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, & Reoviridae

Unit 10: Unconventional Slow Viruses
Prions

Laboratory Syllabus
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