Catalogue 2004-05

• USC School of Dentistry
  • Undergraduate Degree
  • Professional Degrees
  • Advanced Programs in Dental Education
  • Graduate Degrees
  • Continuing Education
  • Courses of Instuction
    • Dentistry
    • Advanced Dental Education Conjoint Program
    • Advanced Education in General Dentistry
    • Anatomy
    • Anesthesia and Medicine
    • Biochemistry
    • Craniofacial Biology
    • Community Dentistry
    • Dental Hygiene
    • Oral Diagnosis and Radiology
    • Dental Materials
    • Dental Problem Based Learning
    • Endodontics
    • Fixed Prosthodontics
    • Geriatric and Special Patient Dentistry
    • Histology
    • Human Behavior
    • Interdisciplinary -- Basic Sciences
    • Interdisciplinary -- Developmental Dentistry
    • Interdisciplinary -- Practice Dynamics
    • Interdisciplinary -- Restorative Dentistry
    • Interdisciplinary -- Surgical Sciences
    • Interdisciplinary -- Diagnostic Sciences
    • Microbiology and Immunology
    • Occlusion
    • Orofacial Pain Oral Medicine
    • Oral Medicine Oral Diagnosis
    • Operative Dentistry
    • Orthodontics
    • Pathology
    • Pediatric Dentistry
    • Periodontics
    • Pharmacology
    • Physiology
    • Restorative Dentistry
    • Removable Prosthodontics
    • Oral Surgery

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Courses of Instruction

Microbiology and Immunology (MBIO)

310 Principles of Microbiology and Immunology (2) Fundamental concepts of microbiology and immunology. Bacterial, viral and fungal diseases are correlated with host responses; oral manifestations of infectious disease. Emphasis on sanitation and sterilization.

501 Immunology (2) Fundamentals of immunology; basic immunopathology, especially concerning the oral cavity, including immunogenetics; hypersensitivities and inflammation; auto-immune diseases.