Microbiology

Paper Code: 
ZOL-502
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
 
This course will enable the students to 
 
1. To assess common infectious agents and the diseases that they cause. 
2. To categorize the microbes on the basis of their nutritional requirements. 
3. To integrate general and specific mechanisms by which an infectious agent causes disease. 
 

Course

Learning outcomes 

(at course level)

Learning and  

teaching 

strategies

Assessment  Strategies

Paper 

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Paper Title

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
 

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Unit I
 
● 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 
 
10.00
Unit II: 
Unit-II
 
● 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 
 
8.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
 
● Microbial nutrition 
   Nutritional types
● Nutritional Requirement (Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus & Sulphar) 
Organic growth factors 
● Environmental factors: Temperature, Hydrogen ion concentration, Osmotic pressure 
● Microbial growth 
 
10.00
Unit IV: 
IV
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):
 
8.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

 

● Cyanobacteria (Structural organization and significance), 

● Yeast- industrial application 
● Virus : General Characteristics, structure, classification on the basis of morphology and  genetic material. Lytic & Lysogenic cycles 
 
Essential Readings: 
ESSENTIAL READINGS:
● P.D. Sharma, Microbiology,Rastogi and Company, Meerut. 
● Microbiological Application,AlfredE.Brown, McGraw.Hill 
● Microbiology by Totora, Pearson Education. 
 
 
SUGGESTED READING:
● Microbial: T.Stuart Walker, W.B. Saunders Company 
● Microbiological Application, AlfredE. Brown, McGraw.Hill 
● Practical Biochemistry: Principles and Techniques; Keith Wilson& John  Walker; Cambridge University 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. 
● David Freifelder-Molecular Biology, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi
 
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Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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