Study and discussion of: the structure, function, clinical significance and laboratory features of a range of viruses and fungi pathogenic to humans; the epidemiology, life cycles and laboratory diagnosis of selected parasites pathogenic to humans; the clinical significance, pathogenesis and laboratory features of various medical bacteria not discussed at the second year level; Antimicrobial chemotherapy: the mode of action, spectrum and use of the major groups of antibiotics and mechanisms of bacterial resistance to these agents, genetics of resistance spread and methods of laboratory detection of resistance; the process and methods of examination of clinical specimens as performed in... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: 311405 (v.1)<br/> Medical Microbiology 235<br/> <br/> or any previous version<br/> <br/> <br/><br/> <br/> OR<br/><br/> <br/> 302477 (v.2)<br/> Clinical Microbiology 232<br/> <br/> or any previous version<br/> <br/> <br/><br/> <br/> OR<br/><br/> <br/> 3114
