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Microbiology
Course Objectives:
This course will enable the students to
- To assess common infectious agents and the diseases that they cause.
- To categorize the microbes on the basis of their nutritional requirements.
- To integrate general and specific mechanisms by which an infectious agent causes disease.
Course Outcomes (COs):
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ZOL 502 |
Microbiology |
The students will- CO55: Relate morphology of bacterial cell, its genetic material and modes of reproduction CO56: Correlate the epidemiology of infectious agents including how infectious diseases are transmitted CO57: Develop microbial cultures. CO58 Explain and integrate interventions employed to prevent infectious diseases including infection control measures and vaccines. |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical |
Class test Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects |
- Brief introduction to the history of Microbiology
- Work of Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
- Work of Louis Pasteur, John Tyndall, Robert Koch & Jenner
Prokaryota(Bacteria)
- Size, shape & pattern of arrangement
- Structural Organization—Slime layer(Capsule) Cell envelope, Cytoplasmic membrane(Inner membrane), Cell wall(Outer membrane) of gram-ve and gram +ve bacteria, Mesosomes; Cytoplasmic organization, Cell projections- Flagella & pili
- Genetic material of bacteria: Chromosomes, Plasmids, Replication of bacterial DNA
- Reproduction in Bacteria: Asexual reproduction: Binary fission, budding, Endospore formation& cyst formation Transformation, Conjugation,
- Transduction & Bacterial recombination
- Microbial nutrition culture of Bacteria
- Carbon & energy source
- Nitrogen & minerals
- Organic growth factors
- Oxygen
- Environmental factors: Temperature, Hydrogen ion concentration, Osmotic pressure
- Microbial growth
Bacteria of medical importance:
- Gram +ve:
Cocci : Staphylococci, Streptococci
Bacilli: Diphtheria, Tetanus
- Gram –ve:
Cocci: Gonorrhea, Meningitis
Bacilli: Diarrhoea
Causative agents, Transmission, Pathogenicity, Laboratory diagnosis, Treatment & Prevention
- Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis
- Hepatitis (with emphasis on B type)
- Cyanobacteria(Structural organization and significance),
- Yeast- industrial application
- Virus : General Characteristics, structure, classification on the basis of morphology and genetic material. Lytic & Lysogenic cycles
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
● P.D. Sharma, Microbiology,Rastogi and Company, Meerut.
● Microbiological Application,AlfredE.Brown, McGraw.Hill
● Microbiology by Totora, Pearson Education.
● Suggested Readings:
● Microbial:T.StuartWalker,W.B.Saunders Company
● Microbiological Application,AlfredE.Brown, McGraw.Hill
● Practical Biochemistry:Principles and Techniques; Keith Wilson& John Walker;CambridgeUniversity Press.
● Lechiman, W.Microbiology, Glenced Pub1. Co.New York
● Nestler, R.L. Microbiology, W.S. Saunders, Philadelphia (Student edition:Holt-Saunders International Edition, Tokyo).
● Salle,S.J. Fundamental Principles of Bacteriology,TataMcGraw Hill Pub. Co., New Delhi.
● Stonier, T.I. Nouderroff, and Adeloverg, E.A. General Microbiology.
● Jacob D.IntroductoryMicrobiology,Ramesh Book Depot,Jaipur.
● Cruick shank et al. Medical Microbiology.The English Language Book Society,London.
● P.D. Sharma, Microbiology,Rastogi and Company, Meerut.
● David Freifelder-Molecular Biology, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi
