11/27/2020
Microbiology 1153 Elementary Public Health
Unit 3, Part 1 Types of infectious diseases
Group Assignment
For each of the diseases in the list below identify the “links in the chain of infection.” (See
Schneider, Chapter 9).
Your group may divide up the list as you see fit. Bring this information to class to teach the rest
of your group on. The information you gather will be included on the Unit III quiz on
3/19/2007. Use your book, www.cdc.gov or www.who.int, or other sites or textbooks as needed
to find the information. You can divide the diseases up within your group, but you are
responsible for knowing all of the information.
Diseases
typhoid fever
herpes simplex virus (cold sores)
smallpox
malaria
cholera
rabies
tuberculosis
Salmonella
Giardia
Whooping cough
Athletes’s foot
