Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. With the changes in societies,
environments and the development of anti-drug resistance of microorganisms, the effective treatment,
control and prevention of infectious disease becomes an important challenge. This course will help
students to familar this dynamic field and will mainly focus on bacterial and fungal infection.

This course will proceed via group discussion and current scientific papers with different aspcets
of microbial infection will be used as main references. Students' course evalution will base on their
presentations, participation in discussions and a final report.