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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.