Syllabus
General characteristic and focus on medical microbiology, history, microbiome.
Methods of specimen collection, inoculation into differential media, laboratory protocols.
Isolation media, cultivation of bacteria.
Laboratory diagnostics of gram-negative bacilli.
Laboratory diagnostics of gram-positive cocci, hemocultivation, control of sterility.
Laboratory diagnostics microaerofillic pathogens.
Laboratory diagnostics gram-positive bacilli.
Laboratory diagnostics of acid-fast bacilli.
Laboratory diagnostics of parasite diseases.
Laboratory diagnostics of viral infections.
Laboratory diagnostics in mycological laboratory.
Making use of indirect laboratory methods in infection diseaeses diagnotics - serological tests and direct antigen testing.
Instrumental methods in bacteriological laboratory – laboratory in 21. century.
Annotation
Medical microbiology follows the basic subject Microbiology. This subject expands knowledge about medically important microbes and microbial infections focusing on routine laboratory and clinical diagnosis of infections, clinical forms and pathogenesis of infectious diseases, and their therapeutical management.
The goal is to prepare the skilled worker for microbiology laboratory including basic procedures, techniques and evaluation of results.