Medical Microbiology

Catalog description

This course focuses on human microbial pathogens including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and parasites. Emphasis will be placed on structure and characteristics of the classes of microbes, host-microbial interaction, mechanisms and routes of transmission, antibiotic resistance, and pathogenesis. Microbial isolation and culturing, identification, and differential/clinical assays will be studied in the laboratory portion of the course. Prerequisite: C grade or better in BMS 231 , or BMS 230 and BMS 232 , or BIO 235 and BIO 236 , or DTN 532 , or AGS 300 and AGS 301 ; and C grade or better in CHM 116 and CHM 117 , or CHM 160 and CHM 161 .