Medical Microbiology

Fundamentals of microbiology: the science of microbiology; cell structure; classification of bacteria; the growth, survival and death of microorganisms; cultivation of microorganisms; microbial metabolisms; microbial genetics. Bacteriology: pathogenesis of bacterial infection; antimicrobial chemotherapy; normal microbial flora of the human body; spor-forming gram-positive bacilli - bacillus and clostridium species; non-spor-forming gram-positive bacilli - corynebacterium, propionibacterium, listria and erysipelothirx and related pathogens; the staphylococci; the streptococci; enteric gram-negative rods; pseudomonades, acinetobacters and uncommon gram-negative bacteria; vibrios, campylobacters, helicobacter and associated bacteria; haemophilus, bordetella and brucella; yersinia, francisella and pasteurella; the neisseriae; infections caused by anaerobic bacteria; legionellae and unusual bacterial pathogens; mycobacteria; spirochetes and other spiral microorganisms; mycoplasmas (mollicutes) and cell wall-defective bacteria; Rickettsial disease; chlamydiae. Virology: general properties of viruses; pathogenesis and control of viral diseases; paravoviruses; adenoviruses; herpeviruses; poxviruses; hepatitis viruses; picornaviruses; reoviruses and rotaviruses; arthropod-borne and rodent-borne viral disease; orthomyxoviruses; paramyxoviruses and rubella virus; coronaviruses; rabies and slow virus infections; tumour viruses and oncogenes; AIDS and lentiviruses. Mycology: medical Mycology. Parasitology: medical parasitology. Diagnostic medical microbiology and clinical correlation: principles of diagnostic medical microbiology; clinical correlations.