Microbiology

Paper Code: 
ZOL-513
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

OBJECTIVES-

  1. The student will be able to identify common infectious agents and the diseases that they cause.
  2. The students will learn about the nutritional requirements of microbes.
  3. The student will be able to explain general and specific mechanisms by which an infectious agent causes disease.

Learning Outcomes-

  1. The student will be able to describe the epidemiology of infectious agents including how infectious diseases are transmitted.
  2. The students will be able to culture the microbes.

The student will be able to explain interventions employed to prevent infectious diseases including infection control measure and vaccines

9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

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& gram +ve bacteria, Mesosomes; Cytoplasmic organization, Cell projections- Flagella &pili
8.00
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 Sexual reproduction: Conjugation

Transduction, Bacterial recombination &transformation

10.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

Microbial nutrition culture of Bacteria

  • Carbon & energy source
  • Nitrogen & minerals
  • Oxygen
  • Organic growth factors
  • Microbial growth
  • Environmental factors: Temperature, Hydrogen ion concentration, Osmotic pressure
10.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Bacteria of medical importance:

Gram +ve:

  • Cocci : Staphylococci, Streptococci
  • Bacilli: Diptheria, Tetanus

Gram –ve:

  • Cocci: Gonnorrhea, Meningitis
  • Bacilli: Diarrhoea

The causative agents, Transmission, Pathogenecity, Laboratory diagnosis, Treatment & Prevention of:

 

  • Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis
  • Hepatitis (with emphasis on B type)
8.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

Cyanobacteria (Structural organization and significance),

 Virus: General Characteristics, structure, classification on the basis of morphology and genetic material

 Lytic & Lysogenic cycles

 yeast- industrial application

Essential Readings: 
  • Nestler, R.L. Microbiology, W.S. Saunders, Philadelphia (Student edition:Holt-Saunders International Edition, Tokyo).
  • P.D. Sharma, Microbiology,Rastogi and Company, Merrut.
  • Harley Prescott, Laboratory exercise in microbiology.
References: 
  • Microbial:T.StuartWalker,W.B.Saunders Company
  • Microbiological Application,AlfredE.Brown,McGraw.Hill
  • Practical Biochemistry:Principles&Techniques; Keith Wilson& John Walker;Cambridge University Press.
  • Lechiman, W.Microbiology, Glenced Pub1. Co. New York
  • 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.

 


 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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