| Description: | A broad range of topics important to microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pathologists, and clinicians including infections caused by pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and parasites; mechanisms of pathogenicity and virulence factors such as toxins and microbial surface structures; factors involved in host resistance, inflammation, and susceptibility to infection; immunology of microbial infection; development and evaluation of vaccines against pathogens; molecular genomics dealing with information from the genomes of pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria. |
