Defination

1. A disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity,or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.

2. Any abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its vital physiological processes, caused bypathogenic microorganisms, parasites, unfavorable environmental, genetic, or nutritional factors, etc.

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease keeps you informed of the latest developments in clinical microbiology and the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Packed with rigorously peer-reviewed articles and studies in bacteriology, immunology, immunoserology, infectious diseases, mycology, parasitology, and virology. The journal examines new procedures, unusual cases, controversial issues, and important new literature.

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease's distinguished independent editorial board, consisting of experts from many medical specialties, ensures you extensive and authoritative coverage.

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease features:

– Informed commentaries on new antibiotics

– Rapid and cost-effective methods in the laboratory

– Instructive case studies with emphasis on complex circumstances

– Insightful editorials on important current issues

– Book reviews that keep you up-to-date on recently published literature.

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease also covers such areas as laboratory and clinical management of microbial diseases, epidemiology and pathogenesis of infections, automation in the diagnostic microbiology laboratory, and antibiotic susceptibility testing.

MI-603 MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

UNIT–1. MEDICALLY IMPORTANT MICROORGANISMS .

1. Bacterial Diseases of Skin and Eyes, Chicken pox and Herpes.

2. Bacterial Diseases of Nervous Sy stem, Rabies and Creutzfeldt -Jakob disease.

3. Bacterial Diseases of Cardiovascular and Lymphatic System, Malaria and Dengue fever.

4. Bacterial Diseases of Respiratory System, Influenza and Common cold.

5. Bacterial Diseases of Digestive System, Hepatitis and Amoe bic dysentery.

6. Bacterial Diseases of Urinary and Reproductive System, Genital Herpes and Candidiasis.

UNIT–2. HOST PARASITE RELATIONSHIP.

1. Normal flora of skin, oral cavity, Gastrointestinal tract, and other body regions,

2. Entry of pathogen into the host, C olonization and growth.

3. Toxins – Endotoxins and Exotoxins.

4. Nonspecific host defences – general, physical, chemical and biological barriers.

UNIT–3. EPIDEMIOLOGY.

1. Definition, Types of diseases - pandemic, epidemic, endemic and sporadic, epizootics

and zoonoses.

2. Morbidity rate, Mortality rate, types of carriers, types of transmission – airborne,

contact, vector- borne.

3. Control of Epidemics.

4. Recognition of Epidemic, antigenic shift and drift, Herd Immunity.

UNIT–3. PROPHYLAXIS.

1. Definition – Immunization, vaccine, adjuvant, serum, antiserum, anamnesis, toxoids.

2. Types of vaccines –whole organism vaccines, Inactivated, Purified macromolecules as

vaccines, Recombinant vector vaccines, DNA vaccines, Multivalent subunit vaccines.

3. Antimicrobial prophylactic therapie s – malaria prophylaxis, prophylactic use of

immunoglobulins.