Medical Microbiology I
Faculty of Medicine
Medical Microbiology
Goals
To briefly review basic concepts of microbiology, with emphasis on the processes which allow bacteria, fungi, and viruses to cause disease.
To introduce the students to the organization and function of host responses and host defense to disease.
To provide students with a survey of the clinically significant bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases in the world, with an emphasis on those most common in Palestine and the middle east and have important social, financial, and ethical consequences.
To study the morphology, physiology, virulence factors, pathology and epidemiology, of pathogenic microbes and methods of detection, prevention and treatment of the diseases they cause.
Some ‘case study’ examples will be included in lectures in order to better understand the disease concepts.
Attendance: Attendance is very important, all material covered in lecture may be covered in term tests and final exam, regardless of whether it appears in the required textbook.
Lecturer: Dr. Abdelraouf A. Elmanama (Ph. D Microbiology)
My home page:
https://sites.google.com/site/allmicrobiologysite
http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/elmanama
Contact me through e-mail only:
Office: Admission and Registration: Tel: 1200
TEXT BOOK: Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 11th ed.
By Warren Levinson
Scoring:
Course Contents
I. BASIC BACTERIOLOGY
1. Bacteria compared with other microorganisms (Supportive Materials)
2. Structure of bacterial cells (Supportive Materials)
3. Growth (Supportive Materials)
4. Genetics (Supportive Materials)
5. Classification of medically important bacteria (Supportive Materials)
6. Normal flora (Supportive Materials)
7. Pathogenesis (Supportive Materials)
8. Host defenses (Supportive Materials)
9. Laboratory Diagnosis (Supportive Materials)
10. Antimicrobial Drugs: Mechanism of Action (Supportive Materials)
11. Antimicrobial drugs: Resistance (Supportive Materials)
12: Bacterial Vaccines (Supportive Materials)
13. Sterilization & Disinfection (Supportive Materials)
III. BASIC VIROLOGY
28. Structure (Supportive Materials)
29. Replication (Supportive Materials)
30. Genetics & Gene Therapy (Supportive Materials)
31. Classification of Medically Important Viruses (Supportive Materials)
32. Pathogenesis (Supportive Materials)
33. Host Defenses (Supportive Materials)
34. Laboratory Diagnosis (Supportive Materials)
35. Antiviral Drugs (Supportive Materials)
36. Viral Vaccines (Supportive Materials)
Review
V. MYCOLOGY (Supportive Materials)
47. Basic Mycology (Supportive Materials)
48. Cutaneous & Subcutaneous Mycoses (Supportive Materials)
49. Systemic Mycoses (Supportive Materials)
50. Opportunistic Mycoses (Supportive Materials)
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