Medical microbiology

Introduction to medical microbiology -- Basic principles of medical microbiology -- Bacterial classification -- Bacterial morphology and cell wall structure and synthesis -- Bacterial metabolism and growth -- Bacterial genetics -- Viral classification, structure, and replication -- Fungal classification, structure, and replication -- Parasitic classification, structure, and replication -- Commensal and pathogenic microbial flora in humans -- Sterilization, disinfection, and antisepsis -- Basic concepts in the immune response -- Elements of host protective responses -- The humoral immune response -- Cellular immune responses -- Immune responses to infectious agents -- Antimicrobial vaccines -- General principles of laboratory diagnosis -- Microscopic principles and applications -- Molecular diagnosis -- Serologic diagnosis -- Bacteriology -- Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis -- Antibacterial agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial diseases -- Staphylococcus and related organisms -- Streptococcus -- Enterococcus and other gram-positive cocci -- Bacillus -- Listeria and Erysipelothrix -- Corynebacterium and other gram-positive rods -- Nocardia and related bacteria -- Mycobacterium -- Neisseria and related genera -- Enterobacteriaceae -- Vibrio and Aeromonas -- Campylobacter and Heliobacter -- Pseudomonas and related organisms -- Haemophilus and related bacteria -- Bordetella -- Brucella and Francisella -- Legionella -- Miscellaneous gram-negative rods -- Anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive rods -- Anaerobic, non-spore-forming, gram-positive rods -- Anaerobic gram-negative bacteria -- Treponema, Borrelia, and Leptospira -- Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma -- Rickettsia and Orientia -- Ehrlichia anaplasma, and Coxiella -- Chlamydiaceae -- Role of bacteria in disease -- Virology -- Mechanisms of viral pathogenesis -- Antiviral agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases -- Papillomaviruses and Polyomaviruses -- Adenoviruses -- Human herpesviruses -- Poxviruses -- Parvoviruses -- Picornaviruses -- Coronaviruses and Noraviruses -- Paramyxoviruses -- Orthomyxoviruses -- Rhabdoviruses, Filoviruses, and Bornavirues -- Reoviruses -- Togaviruses and flaviviruses -- Bunyaviridae and arenaviridae -- Retroviruses -- Hepatitis viruses -- Unconventional slow viruses: prions -- Role of viruses in disease -- Mycology -- Pathogenesis of a fungal disease -- Antifungal agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of fungal diseases -- Superficial and cutaneous mycoses -- Subcutaneous mycoses -- Systemic mycoses caused by endemic dimorphic fungal pathogens -- Opportunistic mycoses -- Fungal and fungal-like infections of unusual or uncertain etiology -- Mycotoxins and Mycotoxicoses -- Role of fungi in disease -- Parasitology -- Pathogenesis of parasitic disease -- Antiparasitic agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of parasitic disease -- Intestinal and urogenital protozoa -- Blood and tissue protozoa -- Nematodes -- Trematodes -- Cestodes -- Arthropods -- Role of parasites in disease.