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MicroMatters

The MicroMatters™ project is creating teaching materials and online resources in microbiology and infectious diseases. To assist in school-based infectious disease and HIV/AIDS education, the Center for Educational Outreach and Center for AIDS Research at Baylor College of Medicine offer MicroMatters - an introductory mini-magazine designed to introduce students to the following topics:

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Healthy and unhealthy microbes
Communicable diseases
How microbes are spread
Different epidemics in history
The immune system and vaccines
HIV/AIDS

The magazine also includes an interview with a BCM research scientist currently studying viruses, Dr. Janet S. Butel.

Funding for the MicroMatters mini-magazine was provided by the Center for Educational Outreach and Center for AIDS Research at Baylor College of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health SEPA program, Episcopal Health Charities and DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company. Copyright Baylor College of Medicine.

The MicroMatters project is supported by a grant from the Science Education Partnership Award Program from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.


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