Year 11 · SACE Stage 1

Infectious disease

Classify pathogens and practise transmission, defences, immunity and antimicrobial resistance.

Subtopics

Classify causative agents from their defining features.

Match routes to controls and compare risks using denominators.

Identify the molecules and routes involved in host–pathogen recognition.

Match first-line barriers and innate components with their functions.

Match adaptive components to functions and read primary/secondary response data.

Classify immunity mechanisms and calculate simple vaccine-data quantities.

Match controls to targets and read antibiotic-susceptibility results.