Diagnostic Microbiology

Catalog description

This is a comprehensive study of clinically important aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, protozoan, helminthic, and arthropod parasites, and clinically important viruses of medical significance in humans. Course will also discuss the clinically important fungi and their interaction with the human host and recognized species of mycobacteria that are known to cause disease in human hosts. In addition, the course includes a study of serological techniques such as agglutination, precipitation, enzyme immunoassay, immunofluorescence and the utilization of growth characteristics and biochemical tests to correlate disease to microorganism and evaluate antibiotic susceptibility.