Principles and Practice of Medical Laboratory Science

Part 1 Medical microbiology: basic bacteriology; principles of classification and identification; investigation of infectious diseases; laboratory methods; clinical specimens - indications and laboratory procedures; specimens from upper respiratory tract (URT), middle ear and paranasal sinuses; specimens from the lower respiratory tract; urinary tract infection; diarrhoeal disease due to bacterial infection; genital tract infections; specimens from wounds; sensitivity, specificity and predictive values; testing susceptibility to antimicrobial drugs; immunodiagnosis of microbial infections; antibody or antigen is synthetically labelled; biosafety in the clinical microbiology laboratory; quality service in clinical microbiology. Part 2 Medical virology: basic principles; replication; immune responses; vaccines and antivirals; diagnostic virology - specimen collection, transport and processing; cell cultures, virus isolation and electron microscopy; detection of viral antigens, nucleic acids and antibodies; blood-borne viruses; respiratory viruses; contact transmitted viruses; arboviruses; enteric viruses; chlamydiae and mycoplasmas. Part 3 Diagnostic molecular technology: nucleic acid biology; cloning DNA; DNA mapping, DNA sequencing; polymerase chain reaction; diagnostic applications of molecular technology.