Microbiology · Module 14 · Digestive, blood and lymphatic infections

Digestive, Blood and Lymphatic Infections Walkthrough

How microbes cause tooth decay, food poisoning, diarrhea and hepatitis, and how bacteria, viruses and parasites spread through the blood and lymph: sepsis, plague, tick-borne disease, HIV and malaria. Go at your own pace. Nothing here is graded.

Speed

Think of it like this

Quick check

Wrong answers are fine here. Read why, then try again.

Dr. Akash Garg · Microbiology Study Tools · Diagrams are simplified and not to scale. For learning only, not medical advice. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Use the left and right arrow keys to move between steps. Practice next in the Digestive, Blood and Lymphatic Infections Lab. Microbes, cells and organs are drawn as clean cartoons with rounded teaching numbers, and processes that take hours to years are sped up so you can watch them. Treatments are named by drug class only.