Clinical Bacteriology

Name: Clinical Bacteriology
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Learn fundamentals of medical microbiology and clinically significant bacterial pathogens

Created byDr. Aneela Mehboob

Last updated 2/2021

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What you'll learn

To understand pathogenesis of microorganisms
To addresses the transmission and control of pathogens, epidemiology, determination of the significance of isolates, and safety issues in the clinical microbiology laboratory. To learn basic mechanism of infection and molecular mechanism of Pathogenesis.  To provides an introduction to clinical microbiology.  To focuses on the development of knowledge and skills required to practice medical microbiology.  To addresses the transmission and control of pathogens, epidemiology, determination of the significance of isolates, and safety issues in the clinical microbiology laboratory.
To focuses on the development of knowledge and skills required to practice medical microbiology.
To provides an introduction to clinical microbiology.

Course content

3 sections • 17 lectures • 3h 3m total length

Introduction12:52
Explore medical microbiology, host–parasite interactions, and how pathogens cause disease; differentiate extracellular and intracellular organisms, virulence factors, attenuation, vaccines, infection types, and portals of entry including food poisoning.
Medical Terminologies9:16
Learn essential medical terms and definitions used in clinical bacteriology, including infections, toxins, immunity, epidemiology, etiology, and laboratory terminology.
Steps of successful infectious disease15:45
Explains the six steps of infectious disease—from transmission and adherence to colonization, damage, exit, and survival—with examples of pathogens and virulence factors.
Microbial toxins6:15
Explore microbial toxins, comparing exotoxins and endotoxins, their modes of action, heat stability, immunogenicity, detection tests, and representative bacterial sources.
Antibiotics and Drug resistance mechanisms13:45
Explore how antibiotics work, their classes and modes of action, and how natural and acquired drug resistance develops through mutations, plasmids, and efflux mechanisms to inform responsible use.

Streptococcus pneumoniae14:47
Explore streptococcus pneumoniae, the pneumococcus, gram-positive, lancet-shaped diplodocus bacteria with a polysaccharide capsule, alpha-hemolysis, bile salt and optochin sensitivity, and its key diseases such as pneumonia.
Vibrio cholerae10:34
Learn how Vibrio cholerae, a gram-negative, curved, motile bacterium, causes cholera through toxin-mediated diarrhea and dehydration, and how diagnosis, prevention, and treatment reduce spread.
Escherichia coli11:04
Escherichia coli, a gram-negative enterobacteriaceae, presents as lactose-fermenting coliform; key tests include IMViC and MacConkey agar, with ETEC, EHEC, EPEC, and Entero Invasive E. coli causing UTI, meningitis, and diarrhea.
Salmonella typhi14:53
Explore salmonella infection caused by salmonella typhi, its enteric fever pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnosis with culture, differential and selective media, and antibiotic treatment.
Clostridium species9:24
Explore clostridium species, gram-positive, spore-forming bacteria found in soil and the gut that produce potent exotoxins and enzymes, causing tetanus, botulism, gas gangrene, and pseudomembranous colitis.
Neisseria species12:03
Explore Neisseria species, including pathogenic Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, their oxidase positivity, diplococci morphology, growth requirements, transmission, clinical presentations, diagnostic tests, and prevention and treatment strategies.
Mycoplasma5:47
Examine mycoplasma biology, its lack of a cell wall, and growth on cell-free media, along with walking pneumonia and genital infections. Review diagnosis and tetracycline-based treatment, including penicillin resistance.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa12:27
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is opportunistic, aerobic gram-negative rod that causes nosocomial infections, forms biofilms and pigments, and relies on virulence factors such as pili, endotoxin, and exotoxins; diagnosis uses oxidase tests.
Chlamydia8:39
Chlamydia is a gram-negative obligate intracellular bacterium that cycles as elementary and reticulate bodies to cause ocular, genital, and respiratory infections.
Campylobacter5:35
Explore how Campylobacter causes inflammatory diarrhea and dysentery in humans, a common gram-negative, microaerophilic, curved pathogen transmitted through undercooked meat, raw milk, or contaminated water.
Legionella pneumophila11:02
Identify Legionella pneumophila as a gram-negative, motile, facultative intracellular bacterium causing Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever via aerosols; diagnose with culture and fluorescent antibody testing, treat with macrolides or fluoroquinolones.
Helicobacter pylori9:06
Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative curved rod with flagella that survives acidity via urease; identified by urease tests and linked to chronic gastritis, ulcers, and gastric cancer.

Requirements

basics of microbiology
BSC in science

Description

The introduction to Clinical Bacteriology (medical microbiology). It is a course for those interested in clinical microbiology and to understand the progression of diseases and illness. This course introduces students to the microbial species particularly bacteria that cause human disease. This course is comprised on 17 lectures and divided into two sections. First section includes introduction to medical microbiology, medical terminologies, mechanism of drug resistance phenomena, virulence factors, bacterial toxins, and the second section comprised on the characteristics (morphology, cultural, biochemical traits, pathogenesis, pathology, epidemiology, risk factors, diagnostic procedures, prevention, and treatment) of clinically important bacterial pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Streptococcus spp, Helicobacter pylori, Clostridium spp, Neisseria, Salmonella, Mycoplasma, Vibrio cholerae, Campylobacter spp, Legionella pneumophila, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Chlamydia.

The total time length of this course is 3 hours and the first section should follow step by step to develop the fundamental understanding of clinical microbiology. While from the second section, you can choose to pick any bacterial pathogens of your interest to learn first. This course is designed in a manner to develop the understanding of this field from one concept to another and appropriate for beginners, intermediate students, and laboratory technologists. The goal is to make this course interesting, and easy to understand and to share all my knowledge related to clinical bacteriology.

Who this course is for:

Beginners
Undergraduate students
Laboratory technologists
Intermediate students

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Course content

Introduction5 lectures • 58min

Clinically important bacterial pathogens12 lectures • 2hr 5min

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