Contents:

Section 1: General Microbiology

Chapter 1.1 History, Taxonomy, Morphology and Physiology of Bacteria and Microbial Pathogenicity

Chapter 1.2 Sterilization and Disinfection

Chapter 1.3 Culture Media and Methods, Identification of Bacteria by Conventional, Automated and Molecular Methods

Chapter 1.4 Bacterial Genetics and Antimicrobial Resistance

Section 2: Immunology

Chapter 2.1 Immunity

Chapter 2.2 Antigen, Antibody, Antigen-Antibody Reaction, Complement

Chapter 2.3 Structure of Immune System and Immune Response

Chapter 2.4 Hypersensitivity

Chapter 2.5 Autoimmunity, Immunodeficiency, Transplantation, and Immunoprophylaxis

Section 3: Systemic Bacteriology

Chapter 3.1 Staphylococcus

Chapter 3.2 Streptococcus, Enterococcus and Pneumococcus

Chapter 3.3 Neisseria and Moraxella

Chapter 3.4 Corynebacterium and Bacillus

Chapter 3.5 Anaerobes: Clostridium and Non-Sporing Anaerobes

Chapter 3.6 Mycobacteria

Chapter 3.7 Enterobacteriaceae (E. Coli, Klebsiella, Proteus, Shigella, Salmonella, Yersinia)

Chapter 3.8 Vibrio

Chapter 3.9 Pseudomonas and Other Nonfermenters and Haemophilus, Bordetella, Brucella (HBB)

Chapter 3.10 Spirochetes

Chapter 3.11 Rickettsia, Chlamydia and Mycoplasma

Chapter 3.12 Miscellaneous Bacteria

Section 4: Virology

Chapter 4.1 General Properties of Viruses

Chapter 4.2 Herpesviruses and Other DNA Viruses

Chapter 4.3 Myxoviruses and Rubella

Chapter 4.4 Arboviruses, Picornaviruses and Rabies Virus

Chapter 4.5 Hepatitis Viruses

Chapter 4.6 HIV and Other Retroviruses

Chapter 4.7 Miscellaneous Viruses

Section 5: Mycology

Chapter 5 Mycology

Section 6: Parasitology

Chapter 6.1 General Parasitology

Chapter 6.2 Intestinal Amebae, Free-living Amebae and Balantidium Coli

Chapter 6.3 Flagellates

Chapter 6.4 Plasmodium Species and Babesia

Chapter 6.5 Coccidian Parasites

Chapter 6.6 Cestodes and Trematodes

Chapter 6.7 Nematodes

Section 7: Applied Microbiology

Chapter 7.1 Clinical Microbiology (Infective Syndromes)

Chapter 7.2 Hospital Acquired Infection, Biomedical Waste, Bacteriology of Water, Air and Milk