Infectious Disease

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What Is an Infectious Disease?

Diseases you can catch

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Types of Pathogens

From prions to parasites

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Establishing the Cause of Disease

Koch, Pasteur and the germ theory

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Transmission of Disease

How pathogens get from host to host

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Adaptations of Pathogens

How pathogens invade, spread and survive

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Plant Defences Against Pathogens

How plants fight infection without an immune system

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First Line of Defence

Barriers that keep pathogens out

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Second Line of Defence

The innate response inside the body

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Third Line of Defence

The specific, adaptive immune response

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Active and Passive Immunity

Borrowed protection versus your own

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Vaccination and Herd Immunity

Training immunity and protecting the community

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Antibiotics, Antivirals and Resistance

Treating infection — and the resistance problem

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Epidemiology

Studying disease across populations

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Preventing and Controlling Disease

From hygiene and quarantine to Aboriginal protocols

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