Biology › Section K · Viruses and prokaryotes › Topic K.7
Bacterial diseases in humans
Most bacteria are harmless, but the parasitic minority wrote history: plagues that toppled cities, foodborne outbreaks, and hospital superbugs that resist our best drugs.
In this topic
- A minority with a major record
- How diseases spread
- Epidemiologists' vocabulary
- Plagues that toppled cities
- Worked example: Reading an outbreak's numbers
- Biofilms in hospitals and food
- Antibiotics and their targets
- Worked example: Comparing MRSA populations
- How resistance happens
- Emerging and re-emerging diseases
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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