Medical Microbiology

Section 1: Microbial Biology 1. Microbiology and Medicine 2. Morphology and Nature of Micro-Organisms 3. Bacterial Identification and Systematics (Classification, Identification and Typing of Micro-organisms) 4. Bacterial Growth, Physiology and Death 5. Antimicrobial Agents and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing 6. Bacterial Genetics 7. Virus–Cell Interactions Section 2: Infection and Immunity 8. Innate and Adaptive Immunity 9. Immunity In Infection 10. Bacterial Pathogenicity 11. The Human Microbiome and the Natural History of Infection Section 3: Bacterial Pathogens and Associated Diseases 12. Staphylococcus 13. Streptococcus and Enterococcus 14. Coryneform Bacteria, Listeria and Erysipelothrix 15. Bacillus 16. Shigella and Escherichia 17. Salmonella 18. Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Proteus and Other Enterobacteria 19. Yersinia 20. Campylobacter and Helicobacter 21. Vibrio 22. Pseudomonads and Non-Fermenters 23. Haemophilus 24. Bordetella 25. Legionella 26. Neisseria and Moraxella 27. Mycobacterium 28. Other Actinobacteria 29. Clostridium 30. Non-Sporing Anaerobes 31. Brucella, Bartonella and Streptobacillus 32. Treponema And Borrelia 33. Leptospira: Leptospirosis; Weil's Disease 34. Chlamydia 35. Mycoplasmas 36. Rickettsia, Orientia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma and Coxiella Section 4: Viral Pathogens and Associated Diseases 37. Adenoviruses 38. Herpesviruses 39. Poxviruses 40. Papillomaviruses 41. Polyomaviruses 42. Hepadnaviruses 43. Parvoviruses 44. Picornaviruses 45. Orthomyxoviruses 46. Paramyxoviruses 47. Arboviruses – Alphaviruses, Flaviviruses and Bunyaviruses 48. Hepaciviruses 49. Hepeviruses 50. Arenaviruses and Filoviruses 51. Reoviruses 52. Retroviruses 53. Caliciviruses and Astroviruses 54. Coronaviruses 55. Rhabdoviruses 56. Togaviruses 57. Prion Diseases Section 5: Fungal Pathogens, Parasitic Infections and Medical Entomology 58. Fungi 59. Protozoa 60. Helminths 61. Arthropods Section 6: Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of Infection 62. Infective Syndromes 63. Diagnostic Procedures 64. Molecular Methods in Diagnostic Microbiology 65. Management of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 66. Epidemiology and Control of Community Infections 67. Hospital Infection 68. Immunization