DSC – 5D
APMB 242P Practicals XI: MEDICAL BACTERIOLOGY (1 credit)
1. General requirements of collection, transport of clinical specimens, direct examination, staining of specimens, methods of enriched, selective, and enrichment culture techniques used to isolate organisms from clinical specimens.
2. Simple, differential and special staining of clinical material.
3. Isolation of microflora from human throat.
4. Differential test of Staphylococcus by examining growth on agar plates.
5. Antimicrobial sensitivity Testing.
6. Quantitative urine culture.
7. Isolation and identification of bacterial pathogens from clinical specimens.
8. Biochemical reactions of the isolated and identified bacterial pathogens.
9. Identification of ectoparasites – mosquitoes, fleas, lice, mites, ticks, etc. (spotters only).