Medical Laboratory Microbiology I

Epidemiology of communicable diseases and disease spectrum and control. Aspects of Public Health and Environmental Microbiology. Applied Microbiology; aspects of Food and Industrial Microbiology. Diagnostic Microbiology. Vaccines and production/immunization. Preservation of cultures and cultural methods. Pathogenic mechanisms of bacteria. Antibiotic assays and monitoring from body fluids etc. anaerobiosis and methods. Phage typing; Research methods and other techniques in Microbiology. Use of metabolic pathways in identification of bacteria, fluorescent antibody methods. Quality Control and Instrumentation. Practical based on the above topics.